“It is real hard work that will release your potential,”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized) who would not lift a hand against a fellow human being! They have established economic systems that perpetuate their superiority so the poor are blamed either for their laziness or their fate.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They pay lip service to it, they act by half measures and do everything to violate the laws they have themselves instituted to make sure the high class is always high. It never changes, it always goes in a circle, when the oppressed fight and get to the top, and they become the new elite and forget the promises.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world's notice.”
Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.”
Source: Husk
“The poor eats with his eyes, the rich with his mouth.”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.”
Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych