Material Deprivation Quotes

It is an insult to a starving people to offer them religion; it is an insult to a starving man to teach him metaphysics.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

When I was a kid, nobody in my family had a car. And I didn't have many toys. The only toys I had were the ones I would steal.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

As I started getting older and started to learn about the world, my friends would tell me about video games and dirt bikes and stuff, and I'd be like, "Oh, I got none of that." I started asking questions, like, "Why we can't get this stuff?" And it was like, "Well, we work hard to make sure da da da..."

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we do a project and people receive our help, we may think that they are getting benefited, but is this what they really wanted?

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.