Quotes of: Poor-substitute Keyword

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Khushwant Singh

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Imran Khan

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Jean Anouilh

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Frank Carson

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Abu Bakr

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Zig Ziglar

It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are poor, but you ignore that it was people of your faith t...

The Rainy Season

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such differe...

Down and Out in Paris and London

If it were ever to rain soup, the poor would only have forks.

Brazilian

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.

Dutch

It is a poor parish where the priest has to ring his own bells.

Polish

The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...

Devil in a Blue Dress

Poor people are the salt of the earth. They should be sprinkled on icy roads, along with pretzels. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Paul Harvey

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

P. J. O'Rourke