“Even if poverty is the fate of heaven, but the causes on earth are those selfish, oppressive and unscrupulous people.”
“I began to feel sorry for myself, to understand what it means to be helpless, and to understand why it's a good thing that Buddhists send out their young monks to beg. It's chastening. It rips off the last layer of baby fat.”
Source: Music For Chameleons
“As in love, so in society, people who donnot have power are quite nice.”
Source: Why the Poor Don't Kill Us
“War ate a great a great deal and war grew fat and rich. War is a monster who empties men's pockets, coin by coin, before devouring the men themselves, so that nothing is lost and all is changed, which is the primary law of nature, as one learns later on. And when war has eaten its fill, when it is sated to the point of vomiting it, it continues its skillful pickpocketing, always taking from the same people, the same pockets. It's a habit acquired in peacetime.”
Source: Levantado do Chão
“Ah, sir! our manners were formed from our different fortunes, not our different age. Wealth gave a loose to your youth, and poverty put a restraint upon mine.”
Source: The Conscious Lovers: A Comedy In Five Acts
“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office. Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“So much seafood was once dismissed as the debris of the sea: eels, snared from the Thames River in sixteenth-century England and tucked into pies in lieu of meat; clams, eaten by New England colonists only in times of desperation; oysters, offered all-you-can-eat for 6 cents at bars in nineteenth-century New York City; whelks, pickled and trundled by wheelbarrow through London streets, which in the mid-nineteenth century the British social reformer Henry Mayhew tallied “among the delicacies of the poor” and which housemaids wouldn’t eat in public, lest they be judged unladylike. Even lowlier were lobsters, scorned as indiscriminate bottom feeders, fobbed off on servants and put on prison menus, or else consigned to fertilizer. Their flesh and shells are still used in this way, as their high concentration of nitrogen and calcium helps plants grow.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2022: A Curated Collection of Mouthwatering and Comforting Culinary Articles
“I was among them. Yet I was alone.”