Top 1200 Poor Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

You've got to gamble on yourself. If you don't, no one else is going to. It's very hard when you're poor to turn down money. When you've got money, it's easy. When you're poor, you need money today. People take advantage of poor people.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.