No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the children of the rich and successful. I really wish that were true.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.
My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
