Poor Can Create Poverty-Free World if Unchained

"The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world ... all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them" -- Muhammad Yunus

Search for Poor Entrepreneurs Banking Challenge

"I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out" -- Muhammad Yunus

Poverty Reduces a Man's Responsibility to God

"In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less" -- Christian Nestell Bovee

A Man Isn't Poor If He Can Laugh: Raymond HItchcock

“A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.” -- Raymond Hitchcock

Poor Man Is Without A Dream Not One Lacking Money

“The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream” -- Harry Kemp

Poor & Happy Better or Moderately Rich & Moody

“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?” -- Princess Diana

Poor Parents Will Not Be Declared Insane By Children

“Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate” -- Woody Allen

When The Rich Make War, It's The Poor That Die: Sartre

"When the rich make war, it's the poor that die" -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Poverty is Uncertainty, Galling Indignities & Harassment

"To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate." -- Barbara Ehrenreich

Lies About Poverty: Jolly Beggar, Happy Milkmaid...

"Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty—the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc." -- Mason Cooley

Every Dollar Spent on War Robs The Poor: Eisenhower

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every Man Has the Right to Be Poor: Richard Jefferies

"Every man has a right to be poor" -- Richard Jefferies

Poor Should Get The Money Spent Studying Poverty

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them" -- Bill Vaughan

Poor Should Get The Money Spent Studying Poverty

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them" -- Bill Vaughan

Problem with Poverty is Consumption of Time

"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time" -- Willem de Kooning

Misery of Poor Caused by Institutions are a Great Sin

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin" -- Charles Darwin

True Poverty is Want of Superfluities Not Necessities

"Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities" -- Samuel Johnson

Resolve Not to be Poor: Poverty an Enemy of Happiness

"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult" -- Samuel Johnson

Rich Refuse to Get Off Backs of Poor: Karl Marx

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" -- Karl Marx

Content Makes Poor Men Rich: Franklin

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor" -- Benjamin Franklin

Remember the Poor, it Costs Nothing: Josh Billings

"Remember the poor, it costs nothing" -- Josh Billings

Poor Villains Name their Price of Rich Villains

"When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will" -- William Shakespeare

Poor Wrongly Judged as Lacking Ambition

"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition" -- William James

Hide Poverty from Others, Idleness from Self

"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself" -- Samuel Johnson

Four Specters Haunt the Poor: Among Them Unemployment

"Four specters haunt the poor -- old age, accident, sickness and unemployment" -- David Lloyd George

Rich are Proud, Poor are Hungry: Jonathan Swift

"Poor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance" -- Jonathan Swift

Poor & Needy Helped by Love, Not Money: St Augustine

"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like" -- Saint Augustine

Difference Between Rich & Poor Illuminated by Hunger

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor" -- Euripides

Best Time to Be Rich or Poor is When You Are Young

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor" -- Euripides

Cities Always Divided into Rich & Poor & are at War

"Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another" -- Plato

Before Decrying The Rich, Consider Job Sources

"Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?" -- Laurence J. Peter

Happiness of the Poor: Physical Labor Eases the Mind

"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor" -- François de La Rochefoucauld

Poor Imagine, Through Entertainment, What Rich Live

"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing" -- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Slander on Poor That Crime is Caused by Poverty

"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor" -- Henry Louis Mencken

Influential is Successful, Whether Rich or Poor

"The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor" -- Orison Swett Marden

Rich I Know Intimately, Poor Only Slightly

"Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous" -- Ambrose Bierce

Obligation to Put All Poor Men in Good Situations

"Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poor By Accident, Not by Design: Josh Billings

"I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design" -- Josh Billings