To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.