Plutarch Quotes

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

We've got to take care of the poor.

I grew up poor.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

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

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.