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“Kasempa faces significant challenges, including poor road infrastructure connecting it to key markets like Lusaka and districts in the Western Province. Many major feeder roads are in disrepair and difficult to navigate. For example, the Nyoka road, which serves over five wards, is in such poor condition that it poses serious risks to residents' safety.”
Brenda Mwika Tambatamba (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People must realize that Nsanje North constituency is currently facing numerous challenges such as poor road network, floods, poor infrastructure; just to mention but a few. I would therefore want to work with the government, to bring sound development that the people of the constituency deserve.”
Esther Mcheka Chilenje (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are poor people among Muslims, but there are also poor among Hindus and Dalits. Why is the government discriminating? This is nothing but vote-bank politics and sowing seeds of division.”
Chalavadi Narayanaswamy first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 16, 2025, in :
“There is a toxic mix of problems plaguing our society from poor hygiene, inaccessibility of quality health care, corruption, malnutrition, lack of access to safe drinking water, poor health infrastructure, fake drugs, insufficient financial investments, and lack of sufficient health personnel.”
Maymunah Kadiri wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people are wondering whether the high temperatures are not a precursor to another drought: eerie thoughts indeed given that the country has just emerged from another poor agricultural season caused by poor rains”
Francis Nhema (born 1959) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zimbabwe Calls for Behavior Change to Combat Global Warming,8 June 2023
“here is an issue of poor infrastructure, shortage of facilities or poor functioning of boilers, I will ensure there are proper facilities and infrastructure in place.”
Alfred Madigele first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr Madigele vows to clean health system, Botswana Guardian(16 April 2016)
“Forget that you are poor. You are most fortunate when you can be happy even if you are poor. Then your troubles become lighter.”
Sayo Kitamura (1900–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A good farmer is better than a poor doctor, and a good horse-shoer is better than a poor bishop.”
Robert Collyer (clergyman) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.”
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) said by 1782 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Carnes, she knew, were not Poor People. Poor people lived in s; the Carnes lived in a , which was the biggest house for miles round, with a and a breakfast-room and three sets of staircases and a top floor nobody ever used now, and a nearly half a mile long.”
Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (605 pages; 1st edition of novel published in 1936 by Collins)
“That’s why we should stop saying that Africa is poor and its people live in misery Africa is not poor. Africa is being looted by the same people who colonised it in collaboration with the people leading those African countries.”
Rachid Koraïchi (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With all these broken toys in the townships, a lot of black kids grew up thinking that Barbie was a half-blind paraplegic doll! Now you have these black girls [saying], ‘Ah, shame, poor Barbie! Poor white girls, man!”
“If you're born poor it's not your fault, but if you die poor it's your fault.”
Bill Gates (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.”
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no Intrinsick Worth in Money but what is alterable with the Times, and whether a Guinea goes for Twenty Pounds or for a Shilling, it is … the Labour of the Poor, and not the high and low value that is set on Gold or Silver, which all the Comforts of Life must arise from.”
Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) said by 1733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never seen electricity or toilet paper.”
“This homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought, that's what I'm going to use it on. Why am I judging this poor bastard?”
Greg Giraldo (1965–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in News Journal [Mansfield, Ohio] (3 August 1965)
“Much money makes a countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) said by 1633 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They are trying to make my God a liar. That I will not accept. If that's the case, then better to be poor and loyal to God than to have all the money in the world.”
Peter Akinola (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and a soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was a chiseler who wanted a cut of outside money his cast earned, demanded to be called 'master,' and prohibited poor Nimoy from using a company pencil.”
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Shatner, "Shatner: Roddenberry Was A Chiseler" TrekMovie.com, June 2, 2008
“Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)”
Meher Baba (1894–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference. The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. The middle class may be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all Americans can advance together.”
Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns.”
Vandana Shiva (born 1952) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Bill Gate's philanthropic activities, from "Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto, Vandana Shiva tells France24" France24 (23 October 2019)
“You can't buy love with money." Only a poor person says that.”
Gene Simmons (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”
Khaled Hosseini (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is — except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.”
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his father, Benjamin Eakins (1867), quoted in Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933) by Lloyd Goodrich
“New Labour’s community development work was all private-sector driven, consultation-tinged regeneration that was done to poor people rather than being controlled by them. I found it, on the whole, a massive waste of money.”
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Third Sector, 6 June 2011
“The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.”
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A tremor ran through him. He had chosen, he reminded himself. He alone was responsible. The psychological test had proved that. And yet, how responsible were the psychologists who had given him the test? How responsible was Mike Terry for offering a poor man so much money? Society had woven the noose and put it around his neck, and he was hanging himself with it, and calling it free will.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The real issue is not whether you're black or white, whether you're a woman or a man. In my view, a woman could be elected president of the United States. The real issue is whose side are you on? Are you on the side of workers and poor people, or are you on the side of big money and the corporations?”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1988, quoted in
“The business of financing is in a poor way. There is no plan found, or scheme digested, for mending our money. There are a thousand projects on foot; but none appears to be taken up on a practical footing.”
Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) said by 1786 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.... Nature is no respecter of birth or money power when she lavishes her mental and physical gifts. We fight God when our Social System dooms the brilliant clever child of a poor man to the same level as his father.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.”
David Dinkins (1927–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are poor you don’t have any social respect or social worth because everything is defined in terms of money and how much of it you have. This is what capitalism does. It turns all values into commercial values, even the value of life itself.”
Kevin Rashid Johnson (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m bothered by all these talent shows because it keeps people who are professional out of work, and these poor souls that are going on there are not getting paid, and people like Rupert Murdoch are making lots of money that they shouldn’t be.”
Helen Reddy (1941–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is the great weapon in a free, equal and competitive society, which skill and capital employ in the war of the wits, to exploitate and oppress the poor, the improvident, and the weak-minded. Its evil effects are greatly aggravated by the credit and banking systems.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was still a teenager, I acquired a small, well-watered (with springs) ranch in northeastern New Mexico. It was located fourteen miles east of the village of Des Moines—which I would later call "Hi-Lo" in my many writings and a major film. ...In those poor struggling days, coyote hides would bring from five to fifteen dollars—a ton of money at the time.”
Max Evans (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”
John Thomas Flynn (1882–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the outside, the favela and everyone in it look the same, but there are various strata, and my family was one of those at the top of the pyramid…Below us were the garbage collectors, delivery boys and street vendors who made even less money than we did, and then those who were so poor that they never even left the favela and lived from odd jobs here and there.”
Paulo Lins (born 1958) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On where his family stood in the strata of the favelas in “THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Out of the Slums of Rio, an Author Finds Fame” in The New York Times (2003 Apr 26)
“The utilitarian argument for giving is straightforward: Going skiing instead of camping (or whatever) may increase your happiness, but it's nothing compared with the increase in happiness that a poor African child gains from clean water, food, and shelter. (...) Thus, says utilitarianism, you should spend that money helping desperately needy people rather than on luxuries for yourself.”
Joshua Greene (born 1974) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (2013), p. 207
“I am liberal in that I believe we have a responsibility to care for the elderly, the poor, the handicapped and the mentally retarded. I support programs aiding these citizens. I am conservative in that when it comes to giving away taxpayers money on such things as the Heber Creeper.”
Beverly White (1928–2021) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune (November 1, 1990)
“Writing, and even becoming a published writer, is not necessarily going to make you famous or make you money: in fact, you may very well die poor! You need to be in love with writing; let the impetus come from deep within you; feel it in your bones and in the very depths of your soul. Allow the message to possess you to the extent that you cannot hold it back.”
Micere Githae Mugo (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they want to expand, let them waste the money. Let us be realistic. Who is Russia going to fight now? We are a poor country. We have nothing left to fight with.”
Alexander Lebed (1950–2002) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wars Of Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebed" in The New York Times (13 October 1996)
“There are a great many poor people who are very sick, and yet have no money to buy food, or clothes, or physic; and there are many more so ignorant that they never heard of the Bible, and think they do very right, when they roast and eat their enemies!”
Fowell Buxton (1837–1915) first seen 1821 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 January 1821, Letter to one of his little boys, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 92
“When you sit on the money for the poor, they will cry and God will hear them.”
John Bonaventure Kwofie (born 1958) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scholarships for disadvantaged students awarded to children of the elite: "This must stop" (11 April 2024) Fides News Agency
“It seems that the main cause of this problem in some instances is the poor road workmanship. This situation results in the waste of money and delays development, particularly in the most affected areas and in the country generally.”
Lempy Lucas (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source