Poorer Quotes

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Powerful, Rich

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden

Money, Nothing, Enjoy

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins

Beauty, Rich, Problem

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller

Rich, Become, Poor

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Society, Rich, Poor

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.
Shia LaBeouf

Money, Fun, Before

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel

Put, Pride, Matter

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Billy Sunday

Money, Nothing, Poor

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick

Health, Care, Less

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley

Best, Feeling, Country

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
Jane Fonda

Health, Teen, Care

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
Freeman Dyson

Human, Making, Wealth

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
J. G. Holland

Live, Person, Living

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.
Hugh Hefner

Different, Learn, Ways

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
Corey Feldman

Funny, Made, Decisions

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Chris Martin

Long, Become, Unfair

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
David Miliband

Time, Health, School

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Sydney Madwed

Self, Everything, Poor

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison

Government, Rich, Poor

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
Roger Daltrey

Life, Family, War

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
Enya

Long, Speak, Popular

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Richard Stallman

Good, Become, Reason

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
Anne Campbell

Education, Students, Higher

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
Dennis Kucinich

War, Fear, Rich

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Mark Hyman

School, Live, Children

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra

Difficult, Pure, Remain

The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
William Weld

School, Public, System

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
Clive Anderson

Yourself, Person, Rich

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
Rickie Lee Jones

Family, General, Troubled

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
Dora Russell

Angry, Woman, Made

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