Best 1392 quotes in «poor quotes» category

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

Grind the faces of the poor.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Happy people are poor psychologists.

Haste is a poor counselor

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

He is not poor who has a competency.

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

He is a poor man who can only measure his wealth in dollars.

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Hillary Clinton gets rich making you poor.

High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

How poor are they that have have not patients.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.