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“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”

Should Decision Poor Subjects Objects Involved Program Etc Decision Making Supporter Making Decisions

Author:Barney Frank

“For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.”

People Poor Effort Objects Program Welfare Reasonable Legislation Poor People Welfare Programs

Author:Barney Frank

“The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.”

Values Poor Objects Europe Trade France Comparison Goods Consumed Cotton Superb Lettuce Pineapples

Author:Jean-Baptiste Say

“A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Matter Able Law Political Imagination Sin Poor Fiction Moral Novel Objects Aliens Controversy Scope

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.”

World Earth Poor Fashion Objects Misery Insane Vanity Folly Attachment Phantoms

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.”

Believe May Soul Suffering I Believe Born Poor Race Special Objects Worship Misery Species I Believe In Miserable Wicked Again And Again Born Again

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object