Poverty Quotes - Page 11

• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Rags, Arms

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

  Thomas Gray

  Soul, Noble, Chill

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.132

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• It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.14, Orbis Books

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• In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Credit, Worthy

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Self, Space

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.96

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• Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Children, Suffering

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1846). “Urania: a Rhymed Lesson”, p.15

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• Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

  Thomas Malthus

  May, Individual, Cases

  "An Essay on the Principle of Population (Two Volumes in One)".

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• This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, War, Military

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

  Alexander Pope

  World, Want, Figures

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park”, p.99

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Rich, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

  Juvenal

  Madness, Rich, Dies

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Cities

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.252, Penguin

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• A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Guilty

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.158

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• There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Men, Differences, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 454, 1895.

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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  E. M. Forster

  Poet, Poor, Taxi

  Howards End Chapter 6

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• The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Impact, Population, Urban

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• If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Poor, Ifs

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• To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

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• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Education, Jobs, Thinking

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• The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

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• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Looks, Marry Me

  J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

  Juvenal

  Lying, Depth, Virtue

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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• We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Games, Choices

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 25, 2017

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