| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Att inget ha är inte fattigdom. | Latin Proverb |
| av fattigsom stjäl man, av nöd ljuger man | Russisk Ordtak |
| De fattiga har en stor fördel- de kan drömma. De rika bekymrar sig för hur de ska överleva. | Isabel de Rosnay |
| Den breda vägen till fattigdom och nöd - är, mycket att bygga och många munnar att mätta. | Acilius |
| Det är snällt att ge en fattig man en fisk, men det är ändå snällare att visa honom hur han själv ska fiska. | Haitian Proverb |
| Fattiga människor underhåller med hjärtat. | Haitian Proverb |
| Fattigdom - det är livet intill märgen, där benet är som godast. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Fattigdom är det värdefullaste arven ung man kan få .. | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| För människor från underklassen är det inte bara ett ekonomiskt problem att vara fattig. Det är ett metafysiskt tillstånd av rädsla och förödmjukelse, det är skräcken för" att bli utkastad på gatan med alla möblerna, så att grannarna kan se det". Att bli blottad. Därför håller underklassen alltid på formerna medan överklassen har privilegiet att spränga dem. | Suzanne Brügger |
| Grunden till revolution och kriminalitet är fattigdom. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Jag vill gärna leva som en fattig man med mycket pengar. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Reaktionär patentmedicin: De fattiga ska ta ett piller och dö ut. | F. X. Neuwirth |
| There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty. | Andrew Cuomo |
| The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them | Bill Vaughn |
| Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance | Daniel Deleon |
| Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries | Douglas Casey |
| Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. | Eli Khamarov |
| The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream | Harry Kemp |
| Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. | James A. Garfield (1831-1881) |
| Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name, and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you | Janice Bradshaw |
| When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows | John Clarke (1857-1945) |
| The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them | Laing Hancock |
| I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. | Mike Todd (1909-) |
| The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society | Nathan Rosenberg |
| The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty | Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) |
| I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving. | Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) |
| Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Come away; poverty's catching | Aphra Behn (1640-1689) |
| Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people | Don Herold (1889-1966) |
| Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. | Eric Butterworth |
| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. | Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) |
| Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. | Ray Charles (1930-2004) |
| Poverty is not the root cause of crime. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts | Saint John Chrysostom |
| Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient | Sydney Smith (1771-1845) |
| An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful | Thucydides |
| The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Poverty is the worst form of violence. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. | Eli Khamarov |
| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty. | Andrew Cuomo |
| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. | Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) |
| Poverty is my pride | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Real poverty is lack of books | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) |
| Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only | Arabian Proverb |
| The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish. | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found | Bible |
| Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food. | Eva Burrows |
| The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. | Hebrew Proverb |
| Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Poor is the church without music | Irish Sayings |
| Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| He is poor who doesn’t have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough. | Jean Guéhenno |
| Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich | Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) |
| And plenty makes us poor. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous. | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| Poverty is death in another form | Latin Proverb |
| The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Poverty is the mother of crime. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Remember the poor - it costs nothing | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| He is now rising from affluence to poverty. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Affluence creates poverty. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are being squeezed out of house and home. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty | Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) |
| If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young | Proverb |
| Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. | W. R. Inge |
| Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| And makes me poor indeed. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| 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 (1935-) |
| True poverty does not come from God. | Yiddish Proverb |
| There is something about poverty that smells like death. | Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) |