Best shame & poverty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

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Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”

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Author:Hesiod

“The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.”

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Author:Livy

“The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

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Book:Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

Source: Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

“The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.”

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Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

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Author:Og Mandino

“That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.”

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Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.”

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Author:Clayton James Cubitt

“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”

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Author:Confucius

“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.”

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Author:Hermann Hesse

“Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”

“You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.”

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Book:A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

Source: A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By

“The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we are the others. Most of us are one paycheck, one divorce, one drug-addicted kid, one mental health illness, one sexual assault, one drinking binge, one night of unprotected sex, or one affair away from being “those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.”

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Book:I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"

Source: I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this ideal world is often proportional to the poverty of the real, as personal grandiosity is proportional to shame.”

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Book:Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

“Junk food is appealing to the homeless not just because it’s cheap but because it can be bought in places where no one looks at them twice as they stand in fast moving lines to order and pay. This is important for them as they are very alive to being noticed, observed and – usually – judged. They don’t generally buy healthy little quinoa salads from M&S not just because they can’t afford them, but also because they’re embarrassed – people stare at them – they don’t really belong in M&S.”

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Book:Four Feet Under: Thirty Untold Stories of Homelessness in London

Source: Four Feet Under: Thirty Untold Stories of Homelessness in London

“It ain't no disgrace to be poor.' This line was the first half of a fine old joke by the Hoosier humorist, Kin Hubbard. 'No,' said another man, completing the joke, 'but it might as well be.”

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Book:God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly.”

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Book:Death on Gokumon Island

Source: Death on Gokumon Island

“I took a job teaching private-school white teenagers how to edit video. They used their newly developed skills to make documentaries about poor brown people in other countries. It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.”

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Book:War Dances

Source: War Dances

“To be ashamed of being poor, you need, not only poverty, but also stupidity.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If that which conspires to silence poor people had hands, shame would be its thumbs.”

Poverty Shame

Book:My Name Is Child of God... Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty

Source: My Name Is Child of God... Not "Those People": A First Person Look at Poverty

“Personally, I would be ashamed to be rich and have precious and expensive goods only to show to the other people that I have more worth than them when in some parts of the world there are people who suffer. No one has more worth than anyone. Everyone can be worthy if he has conditions in his life that enable him to reclaim his values. Worth lies in culture, not in appearance and possession. Besides, every person has his own mission in this world and everyone is valuable.”

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Author:Maria Karvouni

“I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can’t even afford shame and I wait”

Poverty Shame

Book:A Brief History of Seven Killings

Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings

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