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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Teresa Calcutta Topics: Loneliness Poverty And The Poor

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

P. J. O'Rourke Topics: Generosity Poverty And The Poor

"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."

Oscar Wilde Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."

George Bernard Shaw Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty."

Groucho Marx Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."

Samuel Johnson Topics: Poverty Poverty And The Poor

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

John F. Kennedy Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."

Madonna Madonna Topics: Man Poverty And The Poor

"In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?"

Mary McCarthy Topics: Humanity Poverty And The Poor

"Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard."

Bible Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."

Finley Dunne Topics: Life Poverty And The Poor

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

John Gardner Topics: Poverty Poverty And The Poor

"Poverty consist in feeling poor."

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum."

Joe Lewis Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

John Berger Topics: English Artist Poverty Poverty And The Poor

"Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is."

English Proverbs Topics: English Proverbs Poverty And The Poor

"Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth."

Greek Proverbs Topics: Greek Proverbs Poverty And The Poor

"Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter."

Victor Hugo Topics: Bed Poverty And The Poor

"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Topics: Poverty And The Poor

"Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up."

Hector Munro Topics: Poverty Poverty And The Poor

"It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over."

Jerome Jerome Topics: Poverty And The Poor

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