219 quotes found
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, ...”
“You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.”
“World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--”
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"-he might become one on...”
“I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi about moneypeople ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet do...”
“Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?"I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?"Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he...”
“The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.”
“When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.”
“For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!”
“A big hole in a poor childs shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.”
“Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!”
“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one w...”
“It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.”
“Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.”
“He seems so frivolous and so careless, but he gives money to beggars, not frivolously or carelessly, but because he believes in giving money to beggars, and giving it to them where they stand.He sa...”
“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum I expected if I could have had it that night, for our little treasury was wholly exhaust...”
“Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the local cobble...”
“A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.”
“To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”
“Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.”
