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“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.”

Poor Poverty Modern Theory India Bottom Lifts Aspiration Addresses Dictionary Trickle Down Modern India

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.”

Writing Poor Modern Poet Trials Beginners

Author:Robert Frost

“An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.”

World Earth Heaven Poor Rich Modern Land Everyday Busy Islands Fence Utopia Heaven On Earth

Author:William Wrigley, Jr.

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.”

Important Loses Poor Modern Concepts Essence Simplicity Extremes Technique Craftsmanship

Author:George L. Carlson

“The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?”

Past Dies Sin Poor Modern Dog Immortality Lions Modernity

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?”

Home Poor Modern Calling Office Claims Corners Modern Life Salesman Saloons

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.”

Poor Modern Advantage Doctors Cures Faster Modern Life

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.”

People Way Certain Poor Levels Modern Program Paid Income Welfare Organized Productive Earning Poor People Modern Life Welfare Programs

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.”

Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap

“The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.”

Doe Character Poor Kindness Rich Modern Cruelty Commonwealth Oligarchy Modern English

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.”

Needs Poor Education Modern India Agents Humankind Poorest Catalyst Modern Science

Author:Narendra Modi

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.”

Persons Reality Government Form Poor Rich Modern Security Capitalism Property Instinct Injustice Ancient Criminals Corporations Sufficient Organized Defence Predatory

Author:Adam Smith

“The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.”

May Real Christian Spiritual Grows Sin Poor Rooms Results Views Quality Modern Meetings Absence Repentance Inquiry Initials Inadequate Spiritual Experience Sinfulness Poor Quality

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.”

“Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense.”

People Made Use School Opportunity Poor Technology Modern Wall Benefits Library Appreciation Expenses Denied Systematic Science And Technology Modern Science Uses Of Science

Author:John Michael Greer