Poor Quotes · Page 64

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

— Uwe Reinhardt

“No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.”

— Someone You've Probably Never Heard Of

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

— Karl Marx

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

— Colin Powell

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

— Stephen Colbert

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

— Chieh Huang

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

— Robert Toombs

Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia,…

— Haile Gebrselassie

The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own…

— Duncan Green

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich…

— Warren Buffett

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive…

— Meher Baba

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

— Francois Bourguignon

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have…

— Ai Weiwei

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees…

— Mervyn Peake

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we…

— Otto Hahn

The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this…

— John Fowles

I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the…

— David Berg

In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

In some instances even certain social services that normally were supplied, or pre-empted by the state. Take the United States, the [Ronald]…

— Murray Bookchin

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's…

— Craig Ferguson

In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less…

— Neal Barnard

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend…

— Warren Farrell

I love poor people,cause I'm one of them :) I hate golf this is why I don't love rich people

— Adil Baba Aka Black Son

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

— Giancarlo Esposito

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

— Girija Vyas

“Never do for the poor what they have (or could have) the capacity to do for themselves.”

— Robert D. Lupton

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

— Jim Rogers

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

— Amity Shlaes

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

— Viktor Yanukovych

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

— Brigham Young

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

— William O. Douglas

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

— Narendra Modi

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

— Clarence Jordan

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.

— Thiruvalluvar

“That's the best way to do anything--get a bunch of poor people to do it.”

— Scott McClanahan

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

— Timothy Keller