Poor Quotes

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

He who hesitates is poor.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.