Poor Quotes

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

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

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

I’m living proof being born poor doesn’t mean you can’t find financial success.

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.