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And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

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Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but ...

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Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

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It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

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There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are ...

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Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not...

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Bernie SandersOur Revolution: A Future to Believe In

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...

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Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, b...

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Bill WattersonThere's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor....

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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

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C. L. R. JamesThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...

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We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work...

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History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the ot...

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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

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I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

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Charles BukowskiThe Last Night of the Earth Poems

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant ...

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The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and ...

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There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single ...

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The basic principle of structural analysis, I was explaining, is that the terms of a symbolic system...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people i...

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There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving p...

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No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to com...

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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with...

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When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'...

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...

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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he s...

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My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, ac...

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Garrison KeillorLake Wobegon Days

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the ...

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Very few people can afford to be poor.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. A...

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It was not a bed with curtains, but a bed with doors like shutters. This may not seem like a nice wa...

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It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, ...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon cas...

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H. G. WellsThe Outline of History

...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poo...

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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

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Helen KellerRebel Lives: Helen Keller

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but po...

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Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them f...

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Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for bre...

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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds h...

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like ev...

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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of here...

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[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poo...

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The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is ...

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Jean VanierCommunity And Growth

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...

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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so bec...

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I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot ...

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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because th...

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The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be see...

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Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that...

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I never heard enough damnation from your pulpit. Many mornings I had to strain to take hold of what ...

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A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

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You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more us...

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As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to the...

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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

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Kiran DesaiThe Inheritance of Loss

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...

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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

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I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

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I come from a poor family.

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything t...

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[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the...

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Michael PalinDiaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

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I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell ove...

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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relat...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

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Muhammad YunusCreating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

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

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The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

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