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How beautiful it would be if the poor could occupy in our hearts the place they have in the heart of God!
POPE FRANCIS

Beautiful God Heart Occupy Place Poor Poverty
Why, look at me. I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
GROUCHO MARX

Poverty State Work
To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIAL

One Liner Poverty
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
CHANAKYA

Born Evil Fruit Oneself Poor Poverty Prison Sick Sin Tree
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
WILLIE NELSON

Art Country Hard Time Heart Broken Music Myself Poverty Sad Thinking Truth World
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.
SRI AUROBINDO

Awakening Conscious Existence Poverty Society
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.
MATSUO BASHO

Bloom Flower Poverty Truth
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Care Poor Poverty World
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Doll Marriage Poverty She Young
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PERICLES

Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.
BERNIE SANDERS

Billionaire Children Money Politics Poverty Sleep Street
We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATH

Dreams Horrible Imagination Life Poverty Work
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
ADRIENNE RICH

False Glamour Longer Mistrust Performance Poverty Theatricality Transcendental
The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
ADRIENNE RICH

Batter Callousness Child Children Exploitation Force Mother Poverty Sickness War
Poverty is not a crime.
BERNIE SANDERS

Crime One Liner Poverty
Don’t ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He’s too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
RICHARD DAWKINS

Busy Cancer Finding God Poverty Space
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Afford Funny Ourselves Poor Poverty
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Amidst Beautiful Blood Life Pain Poverty Struggle
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Color Constitution Country Degard Evil Ignorance People Poverty
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL

Easy Men Poverty Quality Rise
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
GROUCHO MARX

Anatomy Judgement Poverty
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
CHANAKYA

Charity End Fear Ignorance Poor Poverty
A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.
BERNIE SANDERS

Job Poverty Work
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ

Bank Education Focus Infrastructure International Investment Poverty Private Project
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Honesty Myself Poverty Taste
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
PERICLES

Admit Ashame Escape Measure Poverty Practical Real Shame

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