Poor Quotes

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

They have money for war but can't feed the poor.

They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

Some people think Bob is a poor man's Bruce Springsteen, but personally I always thought Bruce was the rich man's Bob Seger. Love 'em both, though.

Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.

One of my big things is that I wish to be a fisherman. I know it sounds silly ​and I'd sooner be rich than poor, and all the rest of that... but I wish the pain was ignorance or bliss or something.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.