Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly Parton

He who hesitates is poor.
Mel Brooks

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Charles Spurgeon

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre