Best mankind & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.”

Ends Reality Poor Lord Wonderful Mankind Angel Slave Humble Bread Heavenly Sacraments

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

“Poor man. Poor mankind.”

Men Poor Mankind Poor Man

Book:Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear

Source: Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear

“Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.”

“As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.”

Long Poor Mankind Mountain Mortals Climbs Permit

Author:Fausto Cercignani

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

Together Wealth Poor Rich Mankind Members Office Mutual Commerce Intercourse Merchants Commonwealth Magnificence Good Office

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.”

Ifs World Has Beens White Poor Poverty Rich Mankind Ocean Misery Western Plenty Islands Minorities Hopeless Wealthy Recipes Rich And Poor Vast Ocean

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.”

Important Names Poor Rich Mankind Conspiracy Globalization

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!”

Men Poor Mankind Honest Honesty Kings Honest Man Sae

Author:Robert Burns

“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.”

“The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.”

Men Dream Poor Mankind Poor Man

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.”

Men Belief Poor Mankind Victim Miserable Good Man Doing Good

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.”

Men Use Running Poor Risk Mankind Judgment Average Average Man

Author:E. W. Howe

“The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.”

Mean Children Poor Millions Streets Mankind Defeat Poor Children

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”

Men Wells Art Humanity Three Animal Poor Mankind Cat Beast Sheep Sophisticated Worms Perfume Silk Lear Wool

Book:The Tragedy of King Lear

Source: The Tragedy of King Lear

“Anyone who ever studied mankind by listening to them was self-deluded. The first thing they should have done was to answer the question, "Can they report to you correctly on their behavior?" And the answer is, "No, the poor bastards cannot."”

Should Firsts Self Done Answers Poor Mankind Listening Behavior Should Have Reports Deluded

Author:Bill Mollison

“I'm very skeptical of the amount of money that goes into military expenditure, not just in the poor countries [but] also in the rich. I think it's one of the most massive wastes in the world, but education is [at the] other end. It's the bearer of the greatest fruits that mankind has ever known.”

Thinking World Ends Country Poor Known Rich Mankind Military Amount Waste Fruit Massive Skeptical Expenditures Poor Countries

Author:Amartya Sen

“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”

Mean Facts Poor Rich Mankind Fundamentals Property Oneself Abstract Owners Division Divided Rich And Poor Antagonism Riches And Poors Poor Boy

Book:1934-1940

Source: 1934-1940

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost.”

Source: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera

“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”

People Years Heart Two Different War Asks Found Poor Race Class Rich Mankind My Heart Twenties Sticks Setting Settings Plenty Touching Different Races

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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