poverty Quotes

“What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:poverty money

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:poverty wealth

“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:love poverty stars

“Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:poverty justice

“It's a free country. Well, try to get some freedom to do. Fella says you're jus' as free as you got jack to pay for it.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:freedom poverty money

“They experimented on the poor and if that worked they used the treatment on the rich. And if it didn't work, there would still be more poor left over to experiment upon.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly. They want to get away from each other when there is only such a very slight bond as that between them”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:poverty money

“He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

topic:poverty need

“She bears a duke's revenues on her back, and in her heart she scorns our poverty.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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