Poor Quotes - Page 39

• One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

  Jerome Ringo

  Color, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The main difference lies in wage levels, which is because our workers are not yet as well trained as in other countries. We are a poor country. This is why we must accept the conditions that prevail in international markets. But our trade unions do represent the rights of workers.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Country, Lying, Rights

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.

  Klaus Topfer

  Country, Countries Of The World, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor.

  Frans de Waal

  Giving, Animalistic, Humans

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• Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see,
  This world is such a great and a funny place to be.
  Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor,
  And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.

  Woody Guthrie

  Home, Men, Looks

  Song: I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore

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• Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

  Sherry Thomas

  Used, Stills

  Sherry Thomas (2013). “The Luckiest Lady in London”, p.53, Penguin

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• If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

  Ann Wilson

  Want, Helping, Ifs

  Ann Wilson (2015). “The Wealth Chef: Recipes to Make Your Money Work Hard, So You Don't Have To”, p.69, Hay House, Inc

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• We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Fire, Talking

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• We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.

  Desmond Tutu

  Opportunity, Beloved Community, Survival

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• A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Good Intentions, Results, Approach

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• I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wine, Two, Together

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• Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

  Tony Meloto

  Poverty, Abandonment, Abandoned

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• When we give help to the poor, we are not doing the work of aid agencies 'in a Christian way'. Those are good, it is a decent thing to do - aid work is good and quite human - but it is not Christian poverty, which St. Paul desires of us and preaches to us. Christian poverty is that I give of my own, and not of that which is left over - I give even that, which I need for myself, to the poor person, because I know that he enriches me. Why does the poor person enrich me? Because Jesus Himself told us that He is in the poor person.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Agency

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• In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Years

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• I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

  Paul Theroux

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.154, Ivy Books

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• Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Winning, Hands

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• Far as I know, Legal Aid was invented to help poor people fight wrongs; [the criminals] are abusing the system, and the damned lawyers help them do it. They're all sticking two fingers up at them who pay their taxes. And I'll tell you sommat for free, Sir George, them who pays the taxes are eventually going to get fed up of it.

  Andrew Barrett

  Fighting, Two, People

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• Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.

  Amy Lockwood

  People, Effort, Growth

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• When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Art, Writing, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Crime is for poor people. You don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

  Josh Lieb

  People, Needs, Crime

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.23, Penguin

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• Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often.

  Catherine Bramwell-Booth

  Soul, Forgiving, Too Much

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• As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.

  Michael Moss

  Children, Taken, Upset

  Michael Moss (2013). “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us”, p.18, Random House

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• I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

  Aby Rosen

  People, Just Friends, Care

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• My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

  Kenny Troutt

  Mom, Born, Raised

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• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Class, Long, Care

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.73, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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