56 quotes found
“He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.”
“But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.”
“And plenty makes us poor.”
“It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason...”
“The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak q...”
“Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.”
“Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for the unloved, in God's name.”
“Dont let people apply their poor standards on you, never ever let anybody do it. Just because they cant do or get certain things in life and they want to apply the same to you, you need to rebuke t...”
“There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.”
“Poor People get torchered, rich give money to watch.”
“Definitely they are poor, but they have all the potential to become rich; they just need a hand to support, and I want to be that hand of them all.”
“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my cla...”
“Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.”
“The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource...”
“As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add ones self to their number.”
“No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if the...”
“Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first”
“He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. Thats what its like to be rich.Heres what its like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you cant find a job because...”
“The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.”
“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”
