Poor Quotes · Page 61

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

— Albert Einstein

“...the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

— George Herbert

It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor.

— Camille Grammer

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

— Pope Francis

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

— Kofi Annan

A poor man has no need of justice and a rich man has no need of character.

— Vikrant Parsai

“God wants to use you as a divine show room, where the poor, the wearied and the depressed will find comfort and…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

— Paul Tudor Jones

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for…

— Mario Puzo

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without…

— Michael Jordan

“They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything…

— Terry Pratchett

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor,…

— Raj Patel

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

— Anonymous

Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge…

— James Wolfensohn

I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor,…

— Peter Moskos

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep…

— Muhammad Yunus

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their…

— Jack Kerouac

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern…

— John F. Kennedy

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

— Andy Rooney

A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.

— Andy Borowitz

There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?

— Javed Akhtar

College is the only time in which being poor and drunk is acceptable.

— Anonymous

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after…

— Lady Gregory

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

— Mason Cooley

“If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.”

— Glen Duncan

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

— Black Thought

Only MONEY cant feed HUNGRY stomach, its HEART which feels the pain of POOR. Describes it.

— Anonymous

“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.”

— Kamand Kojouri

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana