Best Poor People Wisdom

290 Poor People quotes by 201 unique authors

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people… — Penn Jillette
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… — Jay-Z
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country. — Imran Khan
What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about… — Talib Kweli
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other. — John Lydon
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. — Norm MacDonald
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign?… — Rand Paul
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs? — Rand Paul
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer. — Marco Rubio
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the… — Jean-Paul Sartre
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. — Jean-Paul Sartre
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are… — Charles Schumer
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look… — Russell Simmons
You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that… — Russell Simmons
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. — John Steinbeck
Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle… — Matt Taibbi
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a… — Mother Teresa
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think… — Emma Thompson
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their… — Emma Thompson
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than… — Donald Trump
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is… — Desmond Tutu
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. — Bill Vaughan
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind… — Cornel West
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. — Cornel West

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