Quotes of: Poor Keyword

The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.

Chinese

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God ...

The Sacred Echo: Hearing God's Voice in Every Area of Your Life

I prefer to stay poor.

Azzedine Alaia

Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you a...

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away t...

Mehmet Murat ildan

Good God, I have taken leave of my senses. I never thank Delalieu. I've likely given the poor man a heart attack.

Destroy Me

They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.

The Detective

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

Elliot Perlman

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat

Death is the only equality guaranteed in life. A poor man will die just as surely as a rich man.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Journey to the End of the Night

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

Scarlet

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

Life is struggle. Poor people struggle to get money, and rich people struggle to keep their money.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious