Top 100 Quotes About Poor People
#1. His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed certain lines; the script was always the same, and they had no option but to beg for mercy.
Kiran Desai
#2. The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I
Linda Tirado
#3. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Emma Thompson
#4. America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.
Carlos Mencia
#5. We're the only nation in the world where most of our poor people are fat.
Phil Gramm
#6. Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
Chris Hedges
#7. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
T. Harv Eker
#8. Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Tony Campolo
#9. The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most
David Attenborough
#10. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
T. Harv Eker
#11. My grandmother lived in Orlando East. She had a two-room house. Not a two-bedroom house. A two-room house. There was a bedroom, and then there was basically a living room/kitchen/everything-else room. Some might say we lived like poor people. I prefer "open plan.
Trevor Noah
#12. I would only spend a week or two in the Philippines, most probably the week during my birthday because I am planning to give away Christmas gifts to the poor people of General Santos just like what I did last year.
Manny Pacquiao
#13. Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.
Robin Sacredfire
#14. Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.
T. Harv Eker
#15. Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
Jo Brand
#16. Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.
Alison Gopnik
#17. The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed.
Maxim Gorky
#18. Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.
T. Harv Eker
#19. My daddy used to tell me that God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them.
Stephen King
#20. Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
Matt Taibbi
#21. I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Bob Geldof
#22. Poor people always pay back their loans. It's us, the creators of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
Muhammad Yunus
#23. Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#24. So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
David Dinkins
#25. [Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners ... They serve food to poor people. They share, they give, they give away for free. It's the very same people leading Wall Street firms who, on Sundays, show up and share.
Lawrence Lessig
#26. Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.
Lucia Berlin
#27. All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
Desmond Tutu
#28. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
T. Harv Eker
#29. Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your inspiration, you will express the 'idea' dynamically and without preaching.
Robert McKee
#30. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
T. Harv Eker
#31. The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.
Unita Blackwell
#32. Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
George Bernard Shaw
#33. South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.
Mamphela Ramphele
#34. Abdul knew this Gandhi as the one who cared for poor people, who liked Muslims as well as Hindus, who took on the British and made India free.
Katherine Boo
#35. My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
Frank Carson
#36. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank
#37. There is a difference between helping, comforting, feeding, and empowering people. As I've said many times: Simply giving money (or entitlements) to poor people only serves to keep them poor longer.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#39. So let's stop saying that poor people are irresponsible parents and start admitting that society doesn't seem to believe that if you are poor you are entitled to be a parent at all. Given
Linda Tirado
#40. When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country.
- Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream
Cornel West
#41. Besides, if we want poor people to respect property we must give them some property to respect.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?
Jeremy Clarkson
#43. I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
Emma Thompson
#44. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
#45. Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
#46. Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in life ... The only time you can actually grow is when you are outside your comfort zone.
T. Harv Eker
#47. Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.
Conan O'Brien
#48. Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.
T. Harv Eker
#49. Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.
John Lee Hooker
#50. A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Billy Graham
#51. Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people's paternity test.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#52. Speaking generally, I think it's useful to acknowledge explicitly the power imbalance between a journalist and the protagonists in a story about poor people, even to make that imbalance part of the story - and to redress it, narratively, where you can.
William Finnegan
#53. No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
Victor LaValle
#54. I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
Charles Barkley
#55. The Other World? Yes, there is the Other World: Go to the districts of the poor people, you will find the Other World, the World of Poverty!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people
Eddie Murphy
#57. Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.
Joseph Stiglitz
#58. We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price
Victor Suarez Melendez
#59. Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack
Caitlin Moran
#60. he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?
Octavia E. Butler
#61. The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.
Thomas Sowell
#62. Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.
Moss Hart
#63. I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Sherman Alexie
#64. Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
Fats Waller
#65. Wealthy people are just as patriotic as poor people, I honest to God believe that.
Joe Biden
#66. The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead ...
Walter Mosley
#67. Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#68. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
T. Harv Eker
#69. You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
Will Smith
#70. Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
Bill Gates
#71. I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
Roberto Clemente
#72. Poor people are subject to fancies - this is a provision of nature.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#73. The measure of a country's prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.
Michael Hogan
#74. It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
Imran Khan
#75. I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean ...
Fannie Flagg
#76. Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#77. They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.
Anthony Liccione
#78. Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
Thomas Sowell
#79. Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#80. When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.
Dalai Lama
#81. Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.
Cornel West
#83. Rich People are students throughout their life. Poor People's learning stops after formal education.
Abhishek Kumar
#84. Your nation is the richest, most powerful on the Earth, and it has one of the highest infant mortality rates. Why? Because poor people cannot afford quality pre-natal and post-natal care - and your society is profit driven.
Neale Donald Walsch
#85. As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
Chris Crass
#86. They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.
Rosellen Brown
#87. Rich people think BIG. Poor people think small.
T. Harv Eker
#88. American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
Os Guinness
#90. Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.
T. Harv Eker
#91. Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
Jose Mourinho
#92. In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus
#94. Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works.
Joe Hill
#95. We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Bruce Sterling
#96. A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
Thomas Sowell
#97. In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
Fidel Castro
#98. I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.
Dinesh D'Souza
#99. Poor people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians had access to the lions.
Earl Johnson
#100. I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community.
Mr. T
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