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“In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.”

Two States Law Courses Nations Wish United Opinion United States Feet Vote Slave Obvious Servant Feds Adopting Indirect Contributors Destitute Law Making

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions.”

Earth Found Structure Kingdoms Substance Possessed Fossils Minerals Destitute

Book:The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings

Source: The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings

“Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.”

Real Problem Care Political Water Rights Vote Sick Clean Patient Critical Medical Real Problems Haiti Medical Care Clean Water Destitute Political Rights

Author:Paul Farmer

“The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.”

People Company Share Okay Tolerance Setting Settings Desperate Warmth Sincerity All Alone Great War Destitute

Author:Anders Petersen

“As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.”

“The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.”

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.”

Men Evil Poor Moral Rich Morality Consequence Sacred Property Misfortunes Rich Man Poor Man Destitute Moral Evil

Author:Lord Acton

“We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.”

Giving Heart Body Suffering Exercise Uplifting Neglect Destitute Physical Exercise

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.”

Ifs Mind Philosophy Body Loses Psychology Sight Medicine Senses Paradise Sensibility Miraculous Thrift Soma Destitute

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play