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QUOTES including the word: "poor"

Thales:
  • The best democracy has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.

    • Jack London:
  • Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

    • Adam Smith:
  • The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

    • Du Fu:
  • Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles.

    • Adam Smith:
  • No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

    • Ramos Sucre:
  • God is cruel to the poor.

    • Anne Frank:
  • No one has ever become poor by giving.

    • Hobbes:
  • No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

    • Plutarch:
  • An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

    • Karl Marx:
  • The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

    • Anatole France:
  • The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

    • Sartre:
  • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

    • Proudhon:
  • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

    • Plutarch:
  • “The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”

    • cummings:
  • The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

    • Vonnegut:
  • I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

    • Hesiod:
  • Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

    • Leon Trotsky:
  • “Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

    • Seneca:
  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

    • Rilke:
  • If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

    • Heraclitus:
  • Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.