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Poorest Quotes:

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

topic: Men, Poorest, Seeking

quote what s great about this country is that america started the tradition where the richest andy warhol Quotes

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

source: Myles Munroe (2010). “Rediscovering Faith: Understanding the Nature of Kingdom Living”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Earth, Persons, Poorest

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

topic: Community, Best Food, Poorest

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

source: Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

topic: Coca Cola, Commercial Art, Poorest

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.

source: "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills". Interview With Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Son, Years, Poorest

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

- Denzel Washington

topic: People, Sweetest, Poorest

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Drawing, Poorest

To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don't share those views.

topic: Being Yourself, Powerful, Thinking, Poorest

It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were saying back then? That families would dissolve. That it was the end of good manners and society. There has always been a conservative and traditional opinion out there that's afraid of change. When I was young and would go dancing at balls, we'd have to wear suits and ties. Otherwise they wouldn't let us in. I don't think anyone dresses up for dancing parties nowadays.

topic: Powerful, Party, Divorce, Suits And Ties, Afraid Of Change

My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

topic: Powerful, Moving, Fighting, Poorest

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

topic: Powerful, Sacrifice, President, Poorest

Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that ***** is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Marijuana, Trafficking, Drug Trafficking

Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce. It's no mystery - the less poverty, the more commerce. The most important investment we can make is in human resources.

source: "10 Reasons to Love Uruguay’s President José Mujica" by Medea Benjamin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Government, Important, Poorest, Human Resources

As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is that republics came to the world to make sure that no one is more than anyone else. The pomp of office is like something left over from a feudal past: "You need a palace, red carpet, a lot of people behind you saying, 'Yes, sir.' I think all of that is awful."

topic: Kings, Powerful, Past, Like Something, Climbing Up

Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

topic: Powerful, Latin, Mean, Poorest, Latin American

From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who tries to open a path to peace, I think that deserves support, because there is a lot of pain, and if they try to settle scores, the war will never end. But there is an opportunity. I would feel selfish if I did not help in any way.

topic: Country, Pain, Powerful, Poorest

We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We had Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, please. To say it's modern, come on, it's older than we are. It's an objective reality that it exists. For us, not legalizing it would be to torture people needlessly.

topic: Powerful, Gay, Simple, Objective Reality, Poorest

We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

source: "Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2013.

topic: Country, Powerful, Moving, Poorest

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

topic: Powerful, Frustration, Feelings, Marginalized, Poorest

I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.

topic: Powerful, Spring, Block, Poorest

A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not the witch doctor of a tribe who knows everything. He is a civil servant. I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

topic: Kings, Powerful, Thinking, Witch Doctors, Civil Servants

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Money, Simplicity, Poverty, Poor In Spirit, Poorest

What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

topic: Powerful, Years, People, Poorest

We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits, our lives, and even provides us with rates and credit cards and gives us the appearance of happiness.

topic: Powerful, Giving, Temples, Poorest

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Poorest

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

topic: Children, Compassion, Self, Divergence, Poorest

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

topic: Cutting, Order, Talking, Poorest, Executive Orders

One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Religious, New York, Military, Military Spending, Poorest

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. The poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Ambition, Men, Circles, Uneasiness, Poorest

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

topic: Sea, Broken, Gold, Goeth, Oar

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

source: "Psychology and religion: west and east".

topic: Kindness, What If, Enemy, Offenders, Poorest

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

topic: Racism, People, Community, Bangladesh, Poorest

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Destiny, Men, Self, Poorest

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Gratitude, Sight, Offering, Poorest

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2442, Delphi Classics

topic: Men, History, Historical, Poorest, Greatest Man

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

- Jeffrey Sachs

source: Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

topic: Feet, Keys, Ladders, Microcredit, Poorest

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

- Abigail Van Buren

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Poverty, Poorest

A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Joseph Carrington Cabell (1856). “Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell”, p.106

topic: Education, Citizens, Permit, Poorest

The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down

topic: Memories, Drama, People, Happier Times, Poorest

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

- Jeffrey Sachs

topic: Country, Successful, Feet, Poorest

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

topic: Dream, Reality, Men, Poorest

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

topic: Educational, Answers, Want, Poorest

What joy is ours that the Lord not only forgives our sins ,but allows the soul to know Him, so soon as she humbles herself. The poorest wretch can humble himself and know God in the Holy Spirit. There is no need of money or posessions in order to know God, only humility. The Lord gives Himself freely, for His mercy's sake alone. I did not know this before but now every day and every hour every minute, I see clearly the mercy of God. The Lord gives peace even in sleep, but without God there is no peace in the soul.

- Silouan the Athonite

topic: Love, Humble, Sleep, Poorest

The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

topic: Pain, Humble, Responsibility, Poorest, Prophetic

Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.

- Kenneth Clarke

topic: Country, Differences, Cost, Poorest, Creditors

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

topic: Country, Democracy, Links, Poorest

The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

- Rex D. Pinegar

topic: Home, Miracle, Humanity, Poorest, United Family

But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

topic: Christian, Country, Developing Countries, Poorest

I think even the poorest people in the great country that is the United States should be entitled to basic health care,

- Michael D. Higgins

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Poorest

Being missionaries means loving God with all one's heart, even to the point, if necessary, of dying for him... Being missionaries means stooping down to the needs of all, like the Good Samaritan, especially those of the poorest and most destitute people.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Heart, Mean, People, Samaritans, Destitute

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation of the Gospel bears witness to Christ and is lived out in service of our neighbour through justice for the poorest, education in isolated villages, medical care in remote areas, freedom from poverty, the reintegration of the marginalised, support for the development of peoples, the breaking down of ethnic divisions and respect for life in all its stages.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Justice, Support, Church, Proclamation, Poorest

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