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Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sidney Madwed
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty
Aristotle
Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
Albert Einstein
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
Charles Dickens
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said:
Halford E. Luccock
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
George Orwell
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
Oscar Wilde
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
William Shakespeare
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other isms, it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
Hubert Humphrey
As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who could not get work, and consequently could not get wages, and consequently could not get bread - they were left to suffer on, perhaps inevitably left. It would not do to stop the progress of invention, to damage science by discouraging its improvements; the war could not be terminated; efficient relief could not be raised. There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny - ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction.Misery generates hate. These sufferers hated the machines which they believed took their bread from them; they hated the buildings which contained those machines; they hated the manufacturers who owned those buildings.
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley Part O
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Rush Limbaugh
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.
Bible
