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Poverty27 quotes
Please, sir, I want some more. — Charles Dickens · 1837It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. — William Graham Sumner · 1881Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCIf you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. — Jesus · 60It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. — George Orwell · 1933Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. — James Baldwin · 1961All 27 quotes →Wealth4 quotes
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCI've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better. — Beatrice Kaufman · 1937Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Proverbs 30:8 · 686 BCTo trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E.M. Forster · 1910Charity3 quotes
Please, sir, I want some more. — Charles Dickens · 1837If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. — Jesus · 60Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams · 1910Rich vs. poor3 quotes
I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better. — Beatrice Kaufman · 1937To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E.M. Forster · 1910There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The poor3 quotes
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1766Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan · 1978There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Freedom in poverty2 quotes
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. — George Orwell · 1933Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell · 1933Money2 quotes
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan · 1978There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Public policy2 quotes
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. — William Graham Sumner · 1881I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1766Aging1 quote
There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682America1 quote
The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation. — Michael Harrington · 1962American politics1 quote
Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964Challenges of life1 quote
There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682Corrosive effects of wealth1 quote
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCDeath1 quote
There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down. — Thomas Flatman · 1682Dignity1 quote
It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be. — Frank McKinney Hubbard · 1911Downsides of wealth1 quote
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCEconomic inequality1 quote
There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Enemies1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Fighting for justice1 quote
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. — Tom Joad · 1940Frugality1 quote
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. — Samuel Johnson · 1782Hunger1 quote
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. — Tom Joad · 1940Incentives1 quote
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1766Loneliness1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Moderation1 quote
Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Proverbs 30:8 · 686 BCMoney and sex1 quote
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. — James Baldwin · 1961Natural inequality1 quote
There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Political theory1 quote
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams · 1910Role of government1 quote
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams · 1910Salvation1 quote
If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me. — Jesus · 60Sex1 quote
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. — James Baldwin · 1961