Best poor & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.”

Men Years War Father Difficult Poor Soldier Makers Furniture Payment

Author:Trevor Nunn

“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?”

People Littles Two War Kids Three Bits Parent Memories Poor Wife Thousand Little Bit Died Soldier Zero Entitled Poor People Ground Zero

Author:Carl Paladino

“I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.”

World Wells War Whole Values Culture Poor Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War I Apartment Grandparent Attics European History German History Old Values

Author:Lisel Mueller

“The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

“War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.”

War Peace Poor Sweet Flower Bears Foolish Soil Antiwar Bloody Arrangements Enrichment Sweet Flowers

Author:M. E. W. Sherwood

“I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the poor or oppressed the weak or destroyed small peoples of the World like America has. It's a Country that's never lost a battle and never fought a war for the wrong reason.”

World Heart War Country Reason America Lost Heaven Poor My Heart Battle Weak Kingdoms Destroyed Heavenly Oppressed Citizenship Nationality Kingdom Of Heaven Persecuted Wrong Reasons

Author:David Berg

“My Country's trying to save the World, stop the wars, relieve the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick and liberate the captives that are bound by countries like America!”

World Trying War Country America Poor Sick Bounds Hungry Heal Heavenly Save The World Captives

Author:David Berg

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.”

War Stories Fighting Evil Names Poor Again And Again Good Against Evil

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.”

Children War Might Poor Military Building Red Crosses International Terrorism Burning Bombs Afghanistan Contrast Starving Afghan Us Military Red Cross

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”

War Helping Poor Rich Calamity Get Rich Famine Pestilence

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

“Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?”

War Fighting President Poor

Author:Daron Malakian

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.”

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.”

Thinking Has Beens War Fighting Poor Class Rich Fighting Back

Author:Naomi Klein

“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

World Wells May War Self Nations Interest Poor This World Higher Capacity Destruction Luxury Technological Poor People Self Interest Self Destruction

Book:The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

People World Children War Today Dies Found Born Chance Poor Class Study Rich Moved Determine British War Of The Worlds Britain Second World War Chatter Poor Family Rich Family

Author:Johann Hari

“....All drugs should be legal. War is wrong. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Thank you. I'll be here all week.”

Should War Poor Rich Week Drug Get Rich

Author:Bill Hicks

“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.”

May War Poor Spring Roots Fruit Graves Civil War Brown Bitterness John Brown

Author:Fanny Kemble

“When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?”

“part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.”

War Character Problem Today Poor Poverty Economic Conditions Decided Defects War On Poverty Poverty Today

Author:Anna Quindlen

“The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.”

Has Beens War Fighting Lines Poor Poverty Groups Fronts Injustice Budgets Deficit Reduction Budget Deficit

Book:Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.”

Men Wells War Strong Poor Break Rich Teaching Changed Weak Sick Commandments Rich Man Dead Man Strong Man Antithesis

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.”

Knows War Poor Poverty Millions Weapons Mass Destruction Billions Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Misdirection

Author:Joseph Lowery

“A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.”

Knows War Found Nations Poor Successful Wise Victory Gains Preserves Ministers

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.”

“Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.”

War Political Church Poor Members Concerned Critical Comment Hierarchy Remarks Risen Aristocracy El Salvador

Book:Dirty Truths

Source: Dirty Truths

“That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?”

War Peace Poor Pure Alarms

Book:Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Source: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.”

Ifs Knows Men War Dies Fall Lost Poor Safe Safety Limbs Endeavour

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.”

Ifs Knows World Way Stills War States Spirit Poor History Gone Tomorrow Europe Madness Surprise War Of The Worlds Engines World War Ii Flags World War I Breeze Distracted Streaming Demented

Author:Johan Huizinga

“We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?”

Ifs Long War Poor Finals Complicated Annihilation

Author:Michael Herr

“Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider”

World War Women Work Poor Class Middle Husband Married Employment War Of The Worlds Middle Class World War I Disgrace Second World War Unthinkable Providers Married Women

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.”

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!”

“You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.”

Knows Mind Ideas War Poor Birth Rate Hopefully Distraction Toss Exam Birth Rate

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.”

Ifs War Feelings Poor Position My Friends Civil War Promotion Axioms Colonels

Book:Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

Source: Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)

“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.”

People War Form Poor Rich Groups Happenings Capitalism Resources Essence

Author:Bell Hooks

“Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.”

Firsts War Lasts Values Wealth Poor Rich Doors Economic Conversation Wings Favors Agendas Resorts Right Wing Undercut

Author:Jim Wallis

“We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.”

War Form Motivation Winning Poor Poverty India Army Soldier Behalf We Will Win

Author:Narendra Modi

“The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.”

Should War Poor Poverty Break Feet Empowerment Ultimate India Soldier Objectives Empowering Cycles Subsidies War On Poverty Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Narendra Modi

“War makes good history but peace is poor reading.”

War Humanity Reading Peace Poor Making Peace Total War Make Peace Not War Good War Good History

Author:Thomas Hardy

“I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.”

War Poor Enemy Compelled Militarism Breaking Silence

Author:Martin Luther

Poor Quotes

Related topics

Poor Quotes