Top 100 Poorest Quotes
#1. Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.
Washington Irving
#2. Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
Barber Conable
#3. 8th-grade test scores. Kids in the richest quarter with low test scores are as likely to make it through college as kids in the poorest quarter with high scores (see chart).
Anonymous
#4. If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all - including the poorest.
Bill Gates
#5. Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Bill Gates
#6. We owe Christ to the world
to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.
David Platt
#7. There was no difference at all between the richest man and the poorest beggar, apart from the fact that the former had lots of money, food, power, fine clothes, and good health. But at least he wasn't any better. Just richer, fatter, more powerful, better dressed and healthier. It
Terry Pratchett
#8. A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.
Julia Child
#10. To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
Pope Francis
#12. The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.
Frederic Harrison
#13. The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down
Kim Dong-joo
#14. I didn't care if my ship sank or all the treasures I keep in it because you are my greatest and only treasure and without you I am the poorest pirate alive. I love you, Tilia.
Catherine Banks
#15. The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.
Myles Munroe
#16. What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved
what then?
Carl Jung
#17. and Clyde. Bolivia and Paraguay, the two poorest countries in South America, were fighting in the name of Standard Oil and Shell and bleeding over oil in the Chaco.
Anonymous
#19. Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
Thomas Brooks
#20. Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.
Martin McGuinness
#21. The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.
Jamie Oliver
#22. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.
Metiria Turei
#23. Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
Kenneth Clarke
#24. Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.
David Brooks
#25. This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time
you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
Alice Munro
#26. The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.
Myles Munroe
#27. The six heirs to the Walmart fortune have more wealth than the poorest 30 per cent of Americans.
Russell Brand
#29. To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
James A. Garfield
#30. If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.
Newt Gingrich
#32. His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.
Anthony Everitt
#33. The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
Albert Pike
#34. The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
Edmund Burke
#35. The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?
Ann Coulter
#37. The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.
Pope Benedict XVI
#38. The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
Pope Francis
#39. I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,
Jose Mujica
#40. To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might.
Thiruvalluvar
#41. We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer
#42. My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
Studs Terkel
#44. If you have everything the world has to offer you, but you do not have love, then you are the poorest of the poorest of the poor.
John O'Donohue
#45. Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.
Narendra Modi
#46. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin
#47. Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
Eric Metaxas
#48. The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
Sallust
#49. The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.
Nicola Sturgeon
#50. Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
Soren Kierkegaard
#51. The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
Isabel Allende
#52. If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.
David Cameron
#53. The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna
#54. It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.
John Bunyan
#55. As in the general society, fertility tends to be greatest where people are poorest: "The rich get richer, and the poor have children." In
Thomas Sowell
#56. As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world's population is about 7.2 billion, it means that these sixty-two billionaires together hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humankind.37 The
Yuval Noah Harari
#57. As a graduate student Nathan Nunn, now a Harvard economist, began to compare different economies in modern Africa, and he found that the countries that lost more people to the slave trade were also the poorest countries today. How
Christine Kenneally
#58. Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
Charles Koch
#59. Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
Hugo Chavez
#60. The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
Alexander Smith
#61. Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.
Susan Eaton
#63. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. While God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest
the children.
Wess Stafford
#66. Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#67. Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.
Jan Egeland
#68. The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
Marian Wright Edelman
#70. In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
Mother Teresa
#71. Programs aimed strictly at the poorest Americans are always and forever under assault from a Republican Party that still has not dared to cut spending on programs - like Medicare and crop insurance - that also benefit the rich.
Alex Pareene
#72. But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?
Tony Campolo
#73. What proportion of the peasantry was well off and what poor is judged by what they bequeathed, and since the poorest had nothing to leave, they remain mute. For no other class is that famous goal of the historian, wie es wirklich war (how it really was), so elusive.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#74. The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it's time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
Vandana Shiva
#75. One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. Even the poorest man when he finds true love is richer than the man without it.
Jordan Silver
#78. At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
James Gray
#79. Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.
Hugh Evans
#80. The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.
Cesar Aira
#82. A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
Iain Duncan Smith
#83. Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.
Andrew Lansley
#84. Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
Bono
#85. We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
Boris Johnson
#87. In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest
usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation
and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
John Millington Synge
#88. The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having "things." It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.
Thomas Merton
#89. There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Peter Singer
#90. Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.
Lee Myung-bak
#91. Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor
Mother Teresa
#92. Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!
Richard Corliss
#93. Capitalism has been called a system of greed - yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
Ayn Rand
#94. I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care,
Michael D. Higgins
#95. When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
John Donne
#96. The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
Barbara W. Tuchman
#97. I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
Jose Mujica
#98. The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.
Jose Mujica
#99. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#100. Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
Ralph Nader
