Poor Quotes

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

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.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.