Poverty Quote by F. Sionil José Download Open image ““It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous. -The Cripple”” — F. Sionil José ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poverty
“Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men." -The Cripple” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme… — Jean de La Bruyère Copy Share Image
“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly… — Earl Shorris Copy Share Image
“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
