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“When I started taking this journey, there was something that was my motivation and my motivation was poverty. I was a broke women, I was poor. There were days when I didn't know where the next meal was going to come from. I used to live with friends.”
Deloris Frimpong Manso (born 1982) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I was a broke woman; I was poor – Delay shares a story of how she started her journey in life, Ghana Web, 27 May 2023.
“[C]hildren who are attending dysfunctional schools in dysfunctional neighborhoods, people... unable to catch their bearings in... the IT revolution and globalization, the working poor... trapped in a culture of poverty... ought not be treated like machines without feelings.”
John Komlos (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should be very faithful to pastoral philosophy and the divine evangelizing teaching of Jesus. Perhaps we should be more concerned, not only with the poor as the primary object of Evangelization, but also with poverty itself in Evangelization as a source of apostolic fertility. Considering our resources and time, it is important to give further attention to direct evangelization.”
Cipriano Calderón Polo (1927–2009) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: H. Exc. Rev. Msgr. Cipriano CALDERÓN POLO , Titular Bishop of Tagora and Vice-President of the Pontifical Council for Latin America, VATICAN CITY (17 November 1997) Press Office of the Holy See
“One must decide to share in an effective and participating way the life of the poor who form most African populations. It is obvious that I am not talking about setting in poverty which is not wanted by God and is fought against, but rather of a simple, sober life, shared and done with beneficial deprivations.”
Paulino do Livramento Évora (1931–2019) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Paulino do Livramento Evora Bishop of Praia, Cape Verde (1994) The African Synod
“These are workers who have dedicated their lives to serve the poor and those who are sick but, at the end of it all, they continue struggling to make ends meet, as they are subjected to poverty that is akin to slavery,”
Nosipho Makamba-Botya (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are too few to be poor and we can eradicate poverty.”
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The government introduced UPE and USE, yet some still claim that educating your children is too expensive. Now, with programs like PDM and Emyooga aimed at helping you lift yourselves out of poverty, you refuse to embrace them and continue to say you are poor. Why not appreciate the government's efforts, just for once”
Irene Linda Mugisha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The part of Abbé Pierre’s vision of Emmaus that particularly struck a chord with me was the idea that the movement ought to free the poor from the vice of moral and material poverty in whose grip society forces them to live.”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All those working in development, mobilised through the international community, have been fighting against poverty for decades using an unfortunately linear, top-down approach. This approach involves financing or developing policies, projects and programmes in so-called “poor” countries and communities”
Joséphine Ouédraogo (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the apparitions at Lourdes, Our Lady wanted to restore in us a love for the poor and for poverty, a love that is ingenious and liberating.”
René Laurentin (1917–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The social and economic impacts affect the poor disproportionately. They are less likely to withstand, cope and recover. Climate change is exacerbating poverty and inequality in society. We need to deal with global warming in an unequal and unjust world.”
Antoinette Lombard first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://stias.ac.za/2023/08/poverty-as-a-human-nature-disaster/
“Poverty is not the fault of the poor. It is the fault of a system that allows idleness at the top and starvation at the bottom.”
Elizabeth McCombs (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, one year after, and in line with the Arise Agenda’s emphasis on Rural Development we have deployed a host of social safety net initiatives or kitchen table issues that affect families- especially the poor and the most vulnerable groups in line with the poverty reduction goal of our Blueprint.”
Umo Eno (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poor who give despite their poverty, who share what would be necessary to them like the widow of Zarephath, perform miracles, conquer Heaven. (p. 123)”
Claude La Colombière (1641–1682) said by 1682 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I began to dream about a revolution in Madagascar. Everybody is so poor here; we are living in extreme poverty. I wondered if perhaps people could trigger a revolution against greed, politicians, corruption, everything”
Ketakandriana Rafitoson wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An impalpable veil of gloom and poverty then spreads over the youth that is greedy of happiness; aspirations are checked; the horizon of life is clouded; and many of these poor young men are disheartened, and rebel against their lot, and many are miserably wrecked rather than accept the realities of life with its toil and sacrifices, which unexpectedly open to their sight.”
Zénaide-Marie-Anne Fleuriot (1829–1890) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eagle and Dove (1863)
“The destruction of the poor is their poverty.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Governments are raising taxes for austerity and that doesn’t work. Poor people cannot spend themselves into wealth and governments cannot tax their economies into prosperity. If you tax people who work, and pay people who don’t work, don’t be surprised if you find a lot of people not working…”
Arthur Laffer (born 1940) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reagan will come back: Interview with Arthur Laffer” (24 December 2012), Interview conducted by Economiaendostardes in Spain (16 December 2012)
“Whoever heard of a poor man spending himself into wealth? It’s dumb. But we try stimulus spending all of the time.”
Arthur Laffer (born 1940) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jim McTague,“How Arthur Laffer Would End Trade Warfare" Barron’s (Feb. 13, 2015)
“The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They, poor devils, were just machine-fodder, they were penned like cattle in housing-estates, the big Companies were gradually dominating their whole lives, regulating slavery, threatening to enlist all the nation’s workers, millions of hands to increase the wealth of a thousand idlers.”
Émile Zola (1840–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pt. 4, ch. 7 (tr. L. W. Tancock, 1954)
“But wealth is crime enough to him that's poor.”
John Denham (1615–1669) said by 1669 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.”
Charles Reade (1814–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poor: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.”
Ali (599–661) said by 661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.”
Xunzi (philosopher) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sources of Chinese Tradition (1999), vol. 1, p. 181
“The shame is compounded by the failure of developed countries to commit enough of their wealth and resources to helping poor populations from developing countries.”
Laisenia Qarase (1941–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without safeguarding social justice, our society will not be an Islamic society. Social justice means eradication of major gaps between different social classes, between the unjustified wealth of the affluent and the poor who have always been the most loyal defenders of the revolution.”
Ali Khamenei (1939–2026) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce, The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran, London: Routledge, 2016, p. 149.
“Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.”
Philip Sidney (1554–1586) said by 1586 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where Plenty smiles - alas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.”
George Crabbe (1754–1832) first seen 1783 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Village, Book 1, line 136 (1783).
“If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.”
Sallustius (400–400) said by 400 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not desire wealth for giving to the poor.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) said by 399 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou too take courage, wealth despise, And fit thee to ascend the skies, Nor be a poor man's courtesies Rejected or disdained.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need either a legitimate job or business to be able to lead a proper life. Our wealth, comfort and stability are the result of daily hard work, which allow us to be able to perform good and benevolent tasks for others. One cannot be expected to carry out significant charitable deeds if he himself is poor and starving.”
Hsing Yun (1927–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sacred Hindu lore abounds with tales of Satyabhama showing off her wealth to spite Krishna's other wife, Rukmini, who was extremely poor; she had eloped with Krishna with no gifts from her father's house.”
Rukmini first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Devdutt Pattanaik in: The Goddess in India: The Five Faces of the Eternal Feminine, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1 September 2000, p. 26.
“The wealthiest have garnered the vast majority of wealth and burned the vast majority of carbon at the expense of the lives and the health of the poor.”
Laurie Zoloth (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The workers must be given tangible proof that Labour administration means something different from capitalist administration, and in a nutshell this means diverting wealth from wealthy ratepayers to the poor.”
George Lansbury (1859–1940) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poplar and the Labour Party: a Defence of Poplarism", Labour Monthly (June 1922), quoted in John Shepherd "A Life on the Left: George Lansbury (1859—1940): A Case Study in Recent Labour Biography", Labour History, No. 8…
“Tragically, our political and business leaders remain blind to these and other realities. They are taking us down a different path, one where biotechnology will feed the world, the internet will enable global cooperation, robots will free people from the drudgery of physical and mental effort, and that the wealth of an ever richer 1% will somehow ‘trickle down’ to benefit the poor.”
Helena Norberg-Hodge (born 1946) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Local is Our Future by Helena Norberg-Hodge, CounterPunch (24 July 2019)
“O poor-fellow! Do you know what is renunciation and what is piety? It is that you don't go to the places of the king, nor roam about in quest of livelihood nor base yourself for sake of worldly wealth, nor sit in the company of the world lings.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Development is not about helping poor people, it is about creating wealth, jobs, and opportunity.”
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sleep Heart of Gold! 'Twas not in vain You loved the struggling and the poor, And taught, in sweet and strenuous strain To battle and endure. The lust of wealth, the pride of place, Were not a light to guide thy feet, But larger hopes and wider space For hearts to beat.”
John Farrell (Australian poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a poor man that said God shows His contempt for wealth by the kind of persons He selects to receive it.”
Austin O'Malley (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He laid the foundation and contributed significantly to the eventual change of government. As one of the most educated of his time, he could have chosen to pursue wealth and material gains but he chose the life of opposition politics pursuing the aspirations of the poor and marginalized through the BNF and his political education classes.”
Arafat Khan (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ability is a poor man's wealth.”
Matthew Wren (1585–1667) said by 1667 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Wren in One Thousand Popular Quotations (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co, 1884) p. 8
“I have never suffered from the accursed hunger of wealth, and have long experienced that religion can make a man happy though poor.”
Robert John Seton (1839–1927) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memories of Many Years (1923)
“A Jew waits for Messiah to come and redeem the world from fear and pain, from the cataclysmic conflicts between rich and poor. All shall enjoy the earth. This means, in popular imagination, that bread and clothes shall grow, ready-made, on trees. Do you have more winged ideals?”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advice to the Estranged. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.
“The Daily Express is the first newspaper to serve every class in the community, rich and poor, high and low, barbarian, Scythian, bond and free.”
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Article in the Daily Express (5 November 1937), quoted in A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook (1972), p. 376
“Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of “speculation”; but which ought to be called Gambling.”
William Cobbett (1763–1835) said by 1835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”
Jo Walton (born 1964) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cf. Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. (The law, in…