Poor Quotes

The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Is globalization about ‘the eradication of world poverty,’ or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

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’.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.