T Quotes
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“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine”
“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”
“The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.”
“The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
spheres.”
“The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.”
“The rich won't win. They are pampered blokes. We have daily struggles. They don't even know what struggle is in life. We face adversities on a daily basis. They lead a life of luxury. We have to make choices for our survival. They don't know that they have to make any kind of choices. We have to take care of our families. They don't care. We have to fight on a daily basis to earn our pennies. They squander their money on stupid luxuries. We fight for survival. They give a damn to us and the world.
~ Call me the Professor or Poet or Avijeet or Musafir
#JoinMe #Struggle #WethePeople”
“The rich won't win. They are pampered blokes. We have daily struggles. They don't even know what struggle is in life. We face adversities on a daily basis. They lead a life of luxury. We have to make choices for our survival. They don't know that they have to make any kind of choices. We have to take care of our families. They don't know what they want. We have to fight on a daily basis to earn our pennies. They squander their money on stupid luxuries. We fight for survival. They give a damn to us and the world.
~ Call me the Professor or Poet or Avijeet or Musafir”
“The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.”
Source: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
“The rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy then they're doing now with a large share of an economy that is barely growing at all.”
“The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.”
“The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
“The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.”
“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”
Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.”
“The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.”
“The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.”
“The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.”
“The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“The richer you are, the more worries you have - problems of security, future. Whatsoever you have, you have to hold it. You have to hold it against others because they are constantly watching for a right opportunity to take it back. Whatsoever you hold, you hold out of violence. And of course, if you have been violent then others can be violent to you. They are just waiting for the right moment. The richer you get, the more worries, more problems, more fears you have. Who bothers, if one is happy?”
“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.”
Source: The Political Economy of the American Revolution
“The riches of adversity; we were made thinkers and writers.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”
“The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters
“The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.”
Source: The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary and political addresses
“The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”
“The riches of the mind are worthier than a lot of educational degrees without humanism”
Source: your life can be changed.: the true guide to become a change maker!
“The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers.”
Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.”
Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.”
“The richest 1 percent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity.”
Source: The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.”
“The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.”
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.”
Source: Communal Unity
“The richest journey is the inner journey.”
“The richest life is that which is made up of blessings, not money.”
“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend.”
“The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.”
“The richest minds need not large libraries.”
Source: Table-talk
“The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.”
“The richest of all people is a little child who is so happy with few simple toys!”
“The richest people are those who have an abundance of what we take with us into the next life.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The richest people in life are the good listeners.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Tramping
“The richest people in life are the ones with the happiest memories.”
“The richest people in the world are the people that love the most”