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“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”

“The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.”

Reason Poverty Democracy Greater Mankind Offers Prosperity Aristocracy Despotism

Author:Bill Vaughan

“O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.”

Mind Poverty Mankind Thousand Laughter Generous Contempt

Book:The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes

Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes

“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Poverty Four Mankind Hundred Remedy Physicians Distress Plague Wisest Infallible Malady Ailments

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“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

“It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.”

Care Lost Poverty Support Mankind Temporary Pretension Morrow

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.”

“Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!”

Facts Bigs Poverty Mankind Proof Mathematical Mathematical Proof

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.”

Persons Turns Poverty Mankind Revolution Torches Standstill

Author:Jean Sasson