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“To a text-based life-form, unpredictable syntax and poor grammar is a source of huge discomfort. Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can’t walk to the bathroom. Poor syntax is even worse. Change word order and a sentence useless for anyone Yoda except you have.”
Jasper Fforde (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.”
Nicolas Sarkozy (born 1955) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Charlie Rose, televised 31 January 2007
“A sales tax is the enemy of the poor person. It is the enemy of the elderly couple who live on fixed income. And it is the enemy of the everyday American consumer, poor or not.”
Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would rather paint the victims than the killers.. .When Warhol painted the killers, I painted the victims. The subjects were of poor people, banal poor dogs.”
Gerhard Richter (born 1932) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: comment on his painting 'Eight student nurses', compared with Warhol's art-work 'Thirteen most wanted man', in 1964
“It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees?' Well, they've got the Union dissolved up to the ankle, but no farther!”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is what I want, a poor Church for the poor.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First audience at the Vatican, as quoted in Pope Francis describes wish for 'poor church for the poor', NBC News, (16 March 2013)
“They can call me 'Neech'- Yes, I am from the poor section of society and will spend every moment of my life to work for the poor, Dalits, Tribals and OBC communities. They can keep their language, we will do our work.”
Narendra Modi (born 1950) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PM Modi speech in Surat. (2017) Quoted in [https://www.opindia.com/2017/12/mani-shankar-aiyar-might-have-upset-congress-strategy-of-using-caste-with-his-neech-comment/
“Those days, poor teachers and poor policemen alone would have maximum children. But my father believed in a sort of family planning. He was known as family planning teacher then.”
C. N. Ramachandra Rao (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our prophet said: 'He is a poor man who has no woman, and she is a poor woman who has no man.' I will pick you up nevertheless and if you marry again, don't be afraid. But you know, not all men appeal to me.”
Ziad Jarrah (1975–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare.”
John Harsanyi (1920–2000) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harsanyi, J. C. (1953). "Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-taking". J. Polit. Economy 61 (5): p. 434
“God's service in this name is the service of God's house, and therefore they are convertible. And who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God ? As it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (1554–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God? as it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, Inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (1554–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For centuries, Catholic theology and popular tradition saw the poor as the earthly image of Christ's sufferings. As the theologian A. Bonnefous wrote in his book Le Chrestian charitable (1637), 'the poor man one helps is perhaps Jesus Christ himself'.”
Michael Löwy (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in: "For Paik," exhibition catalogue “Bye-bye Nam June Paik” at Watarium Museum, 2006.
“It is an affirmative command to give tzedaka to the poor of Israel. ... Anyone who sees a poor man begging alms and turns away his glance from him and does not give him tzedaka transgresses a negative command, as it is said, "You shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand to your needy brother" (Deuteronomy 15:7).”
Shlomo Ganzfried (1804–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If it corrupts a society for the government to take care of the poor by violating the principle of property rights, who will take care of the poor? The answer of those who built America seems to be: "Anybody but the federal government.”
W. Cleon Skousen (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The issue of welfare is called the Rahmah program. We will make it the theme in all programs to help the poor, especially the hardcore poor, which is our priority in the current government administration.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2023) cited in: "Welfare of hardcore poor a priority of government, says Anwar" in The Star, 12 January 2023.
“I am not at sea because I object to bad treatment, poor food, poor wages, and worse prospects. I am not at sea because very early I discovered that it is a comfortless, weariful and thankless life—a life compact of hardness and sordidness such as shore people can scarcely conceive. I am not at sea because I dislike being a pawn with the sea for a board and the shipowners for players.”
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Is the Mercantile Navy Worth Joining?—Certainly Not.’ 1905. The Grand Magazine, September 1905. Reprinted in The Wandering Soul: Glimpses of a Life: A Compendium of Rare and Unpublished Works. Ed. Jane Frank. Leyburn: …
“I could not bear it did I not believe in another life for the poor harmless victims where their wrongs will be recompensed, & I may add also in another life for their inhuman persecutors where they will all repent in moral agony worse than the physical pain of their poor victims.”
Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On vivisection. Quoted in Sally Mitchell, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004), p. 348.
“It thus became vital to the peace of the planters' minds that the frustrations of the "crackers," "sandhillers," or "poor white trash" be diminished or placated at all costs. This involved, first and foremost, keeping the bogeyman of race ever before the nonslaveholders' eyes, for whatever hatreds the poor whites nursed against the planters, they nursed still greater ones against blacks.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The] enormous appetite for animal products has forced the conversion (at a very poor rate) of more and more grain, soybean and even fish meal into feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus decreasing the amounts of food directly available for direct consumption by the poor.”
Jean Mayer (1920–1993) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By Bread Alone", The New York Times Book Review (15 December 1974); quoted in The Diet Delusion by (Random House, 2008), p. 42.
“Poor Thomson! How melancholy & helpless. I believe in the perfect parallelism & correlation of the physical & psychical. The anomalous mentality, like that of James Thomson, is caused by some hidden defect in his physical machinery. And I believe that it is to be one of the triumphs of future surgery to rectify many of these soul malformations, such as poor helpless Thomson had to carry thru life.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Henry S. Salt, 15 Nov. 1908
“Oh this poor world, this poor, suffering, ignorant, fear-filled world! How can men be blind or deranged enough to think it is a good world? How can they be cold and satanic enough to be unmoved by the groans and anguish, the writhing and tears, that come up from its unparalleled afflictions?”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“you can't help poor people and be comfortable. You know, the two things are just not compatible. If you want to really give good health care to poor people you've got to be prepared to be a little uncomfortable and to put a little bit of sacrifice behind it”
Dolores Huerta (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those too poor to own their own home pay no property taxes, but their rent reflects the taxes that the landlord must pay. The poor pay higher rents to subsidize inefficiency and waste.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is a crime against the poor civilians of Iran, Iraq, and the whole Middle East region, who pay for U.S. wars with the destruction of their lives, their health, their homes and their country’s environment. It’s a crime against the poor of the U.S. as well who pay with their tax dollars going to the Pentagon instead of to jobs, health care and a green new deal.”
William Barber II (born 1963) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter Asking the United Nations to Hold Trump/U.S. Accountable for War Crimes (8 Jan 2020)
“If utilities are allowed to charge customers for what they use, there is an incentive to supply them... In the cities, charging the poor for water would ensure that the poor would receive it.”
Edward Luce (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fifty percent of [heart] failures are caused by poor contraction of the ventricle (systolic dysfunction) that pumps blood... But the other half have poor filling (diastolic dysfunction) of blood into the ventricle... despite... normal heart contraction. ...[T]here has been uncertainty in how to treat diastolic dysfunction because its mechanical causes have been unknown.”
Gerald Buckberg (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The COVID-19 outbreak is yet another demonstration of how the Indian poor are systematically excluded from the government’s policy-making. A case in point is the government’s failure to account for the 40 million poor and homeless children before declaring the lockdown.”
Armin Rosencranz (born 1937) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: COVID-19, the Government’s Response, and India’s Sustainable Development Goals (May 22, 2020), co-written with Surya Gupta, edited by Tim Zubizarreta,
“No doubt, extending the lockdown was necessary, but so was making transportation and other arrangements for the poor. [...] The COVID–19 episode in India has proved that, to date, the voices of the poor are unheard in the decision-making and policies that affect them the most. Further, data and evidence regarding them are least likely to be considered by the government when framing policies.”
Armin Rosencranz (born 1937) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: COVID-19, the Government’s Response, and India’s Sustainable Development Goals (May 22, 2020), co-written with Surya Gupta, edited by Tim Zubizarreta,
“I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more. This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.”
José Mujica (1935–2025) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president, Vladimir Hernandez BBC Mundo, (15 November 2012)
“Like my predecessors, I want to confirm this recognition: the apparitions and the message of the Virgin of the Poor are worthy of faith. I am particularly struck by the evangelical melody of the sign and the words. The Mother of Jesus always refers to her Son. He is the source of real life, of life in fullness. He came to bring the Good News, the gospel to the poor.”
Aloys Jousten (1937–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wh-who are you? And what do you want?” “Joseph Burns, a poor but honest newspaperman.” He considered for a moment. “Well, poor, anyway.”
William Tenn (1920–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is there any devil equal to a flatterer, to an envious man, to a false friend, to an evil companion ? Well, the poor man is free from all these; for he is neither flattered, nor envied; he has no friend, good of bad, and no one keeps him company. The poor it is that live well and die better.”
Francisco de Quevedo (1584–1645) said by 1645 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Church can be perhaps more prophetic, siding with the marginalized, the poor especially. Albania has a lot of progress these last 20 years, however there is still a good percentage that is very, very poor; and we can always be more prophetic defending the defenseless.”
George Anthony Frendo (born 1946) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Frendo: Albanians excited by Pope Francis visit (September 20, 2014)
“Preaching is difficult due to differences in language, traditions, laws and social resistance. So we are preaching first of all in the language of love by caring for the poor, the abandoned, the young and the old, by helping the suffering and visiting those in hospitals and prisons. The response is good. People notice that we are with the poor. It is not propaganda, but concrete presence.”
Giovanni Battista Morandini (1937–2024) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Mission of Opportunities and Challenges (15 July 2001) UCA News
“Research published this month into OECD countries shows the poor gamble away a larger proportion of their income than the better off. Inevitably the temptations are greater when a £4,000 jackpot feels life-changing to someone on the minimum wage. So countries with more poor people - like the UK - are likely to gamble more. Britain is already the fifth highest gambler among developed nations.”
Polly Toynbee (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“England is known to provide so freely for the education of the poor of every other class without distinction of creed. Why should the deaf and dumb be the exception? Why should not a privilege be granted to the speechless poor which is so liberally bestowed on all others?”
Charlotte Stoker (1818–1901) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society in Ireland in 1863-05 saying schools for the deaf and dumb had been set up in many other countries but not England
“I rejoice to be fully identified with the despised people of color. If they are despised, wo ought we their advocates to be. It is a poor policy, for it is a wicked policy which would make two bands of us. We hear about retaining our influence by not being identified with them. But what was the example of our Saviour! The publicans and sinners were his associates — the poor and the despised.”
Abby Kelley Foster (1811–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“it's time that people stop looking for speakers, for very prepared leaders-lawyers, professors, doctors, whatever. It's time that the poor look for [sic] ourselves as leaders. It's time that the universities take their place behind the poor in this struggle.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Someone should either make the rewards of good better or the punishment of evil worse. Poor planning on a grand scale, I call it. Nothing but poor planning.”
Esther Friesner (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When there is a problem of poor hygiene that is attributed to us women, when children who have a poor education are attributed to us women, no Inkotanyi woman should accept that someone in the society is sick of amavunja or that the children continue to be sick of kwashiorkor”
Chantal Kabasinga first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.kigalitoday.com/amakuru/amakuru-mu-rwanda/Uburasirazuba-Umunsi-w-abagore-uzaba-hatakirangwa-ibibazo-by-imirire-mibi-n Kigali today(February16,2015).
“In Kentucky alone, of all the States I have traversed, it has not been my painful experience to find the insane poor, filling the cells of poor- houses, or the dungeons of the jails.”
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The use of this race thing was to keep the poor whites poor but happy, because they could still feel they were better than the blacks. That's where you are now with groups saying, "Let the past stay in the past." That's not really what they're about. It's still all about "Us" and "Them," and they have never considered "Them" anymore "Us" than they consider me.”
James Meredith (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teachers should not die poor. We need to leave a legacy and retire from service to live a happy life. As I serve the nation through extending service to the girl-child, I implore fellow teachers to also live an entreprising life and outlive the notion where society believes that teachers should die poor.”
Victoria Mwaka wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.”
John Kufuor (born 1938) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At his inaugural speech on 7th January, 2001
“means that many processes are non-reversible... Poor people who go to poor schools... can't get into college and their whole life course is messed up...”
John Komlos (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poorly (poor man) he lived; poorly (poor man) he died.”
Phineas Fletcher (1582–1650) said by 1650 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source