Top 100 Poorest Quotes
#1. Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced.
Abraham Verghese
#3. Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.
Johnnetta B. Cole
#4. Even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
Soren Kierkegaard
#5. Whoever finds Jesus, finds a rich treasure, and a good above every good. He who loses Jesus loses much indeed, and more than the whole world. Poorest of all is he who lives without Jesus, and richest of all is he who stands in favor with Jesus.
Thomas A Kempis
#6. My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
Danny DeVito
#7. Most people were raised to think they are not worthy. School is a process of taking beautiful kids who are filled with life and beating them into happy slavery. That's as true of a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-year executive as it is for the poorest.
Bill Talcott - Organizer
Studs Terkel
#8. None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
#9. I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
Charles Caleb Colton
#11. When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.
Colin Powell
#12. In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble
#13. American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#15. The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.
David Harvey
#16. But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.
George MacDonald
#17. Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.
Tracy Kidder
#18. The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill Gates
#19. In the poorest countries ... it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty ... and preparing another generation for ... leading their countries into real security.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#20. And a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.
Adam Smith
#21. Literature became an arsenal where the poorest and the weakest could always find weapons to their hand.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
John Donne
#24. God can be seen
Even by the poorest fool,
But not by the self-styled,
God-arguing
Intellectual giants.
Sri Chinmoy
#25. The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
Mo Ibrahim
#26. Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#28. Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#29. Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
William Booth
#30. For however much the Gateses might give away, their daily life remains, by and large, unaffected. They remain, in spite of this enormous donation, one of the wealthiest couples in the world. Mother Teresa, on the other hand, gave up everything to serve the poorest of the poor. Pinker
Gary A. Anderson
#31. The Congolese are consistently rated as the planet's poorest people, significantly worse off than other destitute Africans. In the decade from 2000, the Congolese were the only nationality whose gross domestic product per capita, a rough measure of average incomes, was less than a dollar a day.
Tom Burgis
#32. The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.
John Ricard
#33. The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.
John Flavel
#34. You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream
Myles Munroe
#35. I don't have any rift with President Obama at all. I think that he is operating in an entirely different arena than I'm dealing in. I represent my constituents in the Fourth Congressional District. I'm looking out admittedly for much more narrow interests. I represent the fourth-poorest district.
Gwen Moore
#36. The wealthiest cities of the world will follow Venice's lead and simply try to engineer their way around the problem. The poorest cities will follow New Orleans' lead - at least so far - and just move to other nearby cities. Either way the poplation stays urban.
Steven Johnson
#37. A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#39. The world's twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal.
David Mitchell
#40. If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.
Arundhati Roy
#41. How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.
Paul Collier
#42. Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#43. The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
David Korten
#45. Travelling with a tail-end ball club is the poorest pastime in the world. I would rather ride in the first coach of a funeral procession.
Christy Mathewson
#46. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's.
William Shakespeare
#47. The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.
Mother Teresa
#48. 99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
#49. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
Helen Clark
#50. A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
Desiderius Erasmus
#51. The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.
Kim Panti
#52. The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.
John Dryden
#53. The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.
Geoffrey Canada
#54. From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
Nelson Mandela
#55. Ah, no, ah, no. There, senor, you would be wrong. Knowing that after the first year the rent is liable not to be paid, we bury the poorest two feet down. It is less work, you understand? of course, we must judge by the family who owns a body.
Ray Bradbury
#56. The income of the world's 500 richest people exceeds the cumulative income of the world's 416 million poorest people. - UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Eric Toussaint
#57. The most striking fact is no doubt that in all these societies, half of the population own virtually nothing: the poorest 50 percent invariably own less than 10 percent of national wealth, and generally less than 5 percent.
Thomas Piketty
#58. Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.
Nicola Sturgeon
#59. The poorest Americans use three time the energy as the percentage of their income as the average American does. This is going to disproportionately hurt the poor. It may make the whole electric grid unstable, depending on how it is enforced. And it does nothing for the climate.
Charles Koch
#60. We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#61. No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.
Michael Eric Dyson
#62. It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
Jeremy Corbyn
#64. The love of money leads many humans to humiliate themselves but this isn't as bad as their disdain towards the poorest.
Daniel Marques
#65. Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world
Bill Gates
#66. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Hugh Evans
#67. Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#68. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.
Tim Hetherington
#69. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
Roberto Bolano
#70. I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#71. I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
Kailash Satyarthi
#72. Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.
Sheila Walsh
#73. We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
Gordon Brown
#74. The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Noam Chomsky
#75. The poorest man around is not the fellow without a bank coin to his name, but the soul without the right information to orchestrate for himself the right future.
Ritchie Felix Prince .O
#76. Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Donella Meadows
#77. Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him ... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.
Pope Benedict XVI
#78. Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.
Emma Goldman
#79. We're about one hundred times richer than the poorest billion people in the world, and we can do several hundred times more to help them than we can to help others in the rich countries we live in.
William MacAskill
#80. As medical care has improved, life expectancy has increased - on average, in the United States, by some two years between 1990 and 2000. But for the poorest group of Americans there has been no progress, and for poor women life expectancy has actually been declining.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#81. Women had little security other than jewelry, so even the poorest among us sported gold chains, earrings, and rings as their insurance.
Yangsze Choo
#82. In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.
Simon Heffer
#83. You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#84. No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
James Russell Lowell
#86. Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#87. Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
Nelson Mandela
#88. Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.
Matthew Desmond
#89. I was in Vancouver, and I was in what I was told was the poorest neighborhood in North America - which I find very hard to believe because has anyone here ever been to Detroit?
Eugene Mirman
#90. But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.
Jonathan Kozol
#91. Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Akiva Ben Joseph
#92. If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
Bill Gates
#94. But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
Omar Bongo
#95. It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.
Marian Wright Edelman
#96. The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent, but the man without a dream." --Julia Gast in Red Fox Woman
Judy Ann Davis
#98. The occasional solo of the whip added to the symphony of brutality Adarlan had created for its greatest criminals, poorest citizens, and latest conquests.
Sarah J. Maas
#99. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter.
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
#100. To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust