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“All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?”

Wells America Faces Poor Responsible Fellows Well Being Affluence Affluent

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.”

Ifs Men World Inspirational Whole Christian Desire Jesus Loses Religious Poor Lord Rich One Thing He Man Materials Regard Remains Whole World Heavenly Orthodox Material Things

Author:Ignatius Bryanchaninov

“When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, 'Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.'”

Kids Water Poor Growing Up Growing Heritage Soup Mama Better Days

Author:Ashley Judd

“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

“Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.”

Ifs Want Country Age Moving Poor Powerful Education Path Rich India Moving Ahead Rich Poor

Author:Narendra Modi

“Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.”

Government Poor India Welfare Dedicated Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.”

Giving Should Government Together Poor Effort India Priorities Governance Poorest Affordable Health Services

Author:Narendra Modi

“The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in the farmers...I believe in your strength and hence I believe in the future of our country.”

Believe Country Lying Mother I Believe Poor Youth India I Believe In Our Country Village Farmers Believe In You Governance Huts

Author:Narendra Modi

“This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.”

People Men Lasts Lines Poor India Add Budgets Aspiration Rays Sunrise Sections New Life Governance Downtrodden Ray Of Hope

Author:Narendra Modi

“The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.”

Giving Government Would Be Spirit Fighting Poor Effort Poverty Development Skills India Empowering Governance Skills Development

Author:Narendra Modi

“I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts.”

Country Motivation Poor Accounts India Our Country Salute Bank Accounts

Author:Narendra Modi

“We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.”

War Form Motivation Winning Poor Poverty India Army Soldier Behalf We Will Win

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.”

Helping Home Light Motivation Poor Products India Fabric Lamps

Author:Narendra Modi

“The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It is in line with government's vision to create a skilled and digital India.”

Helping Government Motivation Lines Poor Vision Class Middle India Committed Middle Class Digital Mantras Success Mantra Digital India

Author:Narendra Modi

“When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.”

People Want Self Poor Skills Empowerment India Missions Self Confidence Pockets Filling Sense Of Self

Author:Narendra Modi

“Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.”

Heart Poor Rich Balance Reflection Empowerment Empty Accounts India Obligation Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Narendra Modi

“The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.”

Should War Poor Poverty Break Feet Empowerment Ultimate India Soldier Objectives Empowering Cycles Subsidies War On Poverty Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Narendra Modi

“Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.”

Needs Care Left Nations Poor Behinds Economy Economic Development Empowerment India Take Care Sections Left Behind Deprived Economic Development Complement

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.”

Home Light Poor Waste Empowerment India Electricity Lamps

Author:Narendra Modi

“It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.”

Mean Littles Hours Loses Poor Five Happened Months Habit Eating Gains Twenties Pounds Stomach Eating Habits Good Eating

Author:Mila Kunis

“If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.”

Ifs Matter Actors Grows Differences Poor Worry Growing Up Successful Lucky Paid Lucky You Moaning Supporting Actors

Author:Jason Flemyng

“When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.”

Persons Eye Christian Spirit Leadership Church Poor Poor In Spirit

Author:Johnny Hunt

“When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”

Mean Persons Causes Wealth Poor Powerful Moral Rich Conditions Worship Universal Corruption Admire Inequality Neglect Sentiments Despise Disposition

Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.”

Has Beens Matter Poor Consciousness Insomnia Parting Weariness Sleepers Wrenches

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.”

Men Poor Poverty Disgrace Inconvenient

Author:Sydney Smith

“I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.”

Believe Country I Believe Wealth Poor Poverty Millions Prosperity

Author:John Edward

“There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.”

Men Way Poor Demand Devil Drunk Reaching Drunkenness Getting Drunk Superlatives

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.”

Men Humans Enjoy Wealth Poor Money Rich Degrees Every Man Human Life Amusement Convenience Rich Or Poor

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”

Thinking Knows Men Children Done Fun Poor Boys Laughing Angel Loud Poor Man

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“War makes good history but peace is poor reading.”

War Humanity Reading Peace Poor Making Peace Total War Make Peace Not War Good War Good History

Author:Thomas Hardy

“Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.”

People Poor Poverty Satisfaction Poor People

Book:So human

Source: So human

“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.”

People World Way Country Enough Dies Poor Leader Poverty Too Much Failing Cost Survival Trade Basics Ending Poverty Poor Countries

Author:Edward de Bono

“To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.”

Jesus Christ Poor Compassion Jesus Christ Faith In Jesus

Author:Edward de Bono

“They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.”

Heart May Father Heaven Poor Creation Creatures Mercy Sight Forgotten Working It Our Father

Author:John Wesley

“How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!”

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

“The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.”

Hands Natural Wealth Poor Conditions Effects Economics Labor Rewards Backwards Symptoms Starving Maintenance

Book:The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections

Source: The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections

“The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.”

Country Poor Rich Highest Lows Economics Rate Profit Ruins Poor Countries

Author:Adam Smith

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'”

Should States Home Government Enjoy Goal Ability Poor Lord Support Rich Written Subjects Ought Economics Protection Libertarian Riches Inequality Proportion Remedy Taxation Revenue

Author:Adam Smith

“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

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.”

Poor Quality Built Stores Goods Cynicism Cynic Poor Quality Quality Goods

Book:The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.”

Humans Humanity Poor Divinity

Author:Francis Bacon

“My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.”

Thinking Want Believe Wanted Poor Mom Want Me Rumor

Author:Michelle Williams

“Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen.”

Mean Stills Feelings Happens Poor Too Much Security Financial Nightmare Racing Insecure Vanishing Stardom Financial Success Feeling Insecure

Author:Steve McQueen

“I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.”

Mean Doe Strong Poor Teaching Rocks Training Contrary Temptation Climbs Climbing Overwhelmed Moonlight Irresistible Rock Climbing

Author:William Shockley

“I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.”

People Ifs Want Humans Mean Doe Helping Care Poor Rights Human Rights Conservative

Author:Barbara Bush

“I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.”

Mind Together America Spirit Sound Prayer Poor Revolution Rebel Fasting Deluded Sound Mind Prayer And Fasting

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.