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“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?”

“An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.”

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Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.”

People Ifs Hard Might Poor Accepting

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

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Author:Johann Hari

“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”

“Rich people are poor people with money.”

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Author:George Orwell

“It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.”

People Care Poor Take Care Unwise Imbeciles

Author:Brigham Young

“There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.”

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Book:You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

“The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.”

“There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.”

People Poor Class Vote Underprivileged

Author:Austin Mitchell

“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

People Should House Poor Streets Return Habit Towns Court Crowds Contrary Plague Cleanliness Our Town

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"”

“Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.”

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

“It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some.”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

“People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians.”

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Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

People World Whole Might Mother Poor Rich Whole World Symbols Poor People Rich People Cannibalism

Author:Tupac Shakur

“We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.”

People Should Dies Strong Poor Inequality Justify Smarter

Author:Frans de Waal

“One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.”

People Ifs Want Should Poor Corporations Massive Stamps Poor People Food Stamps

Author:Stephen Colbert

“People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.”

People Self Poor Poor Self Image

Author:Paddy Considine

“Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide.”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.”

“Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.”

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Book:The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.”

People Giving Pleasure Poor Health Details Complaining Organs Recitals Poor Health

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.”

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Author:Phillips Brooks

“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”

“Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.”

People Peace Poor Rich Growing Prosperity Contrast Rich And Poor Rich Or Poor Harshness

Book:Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

Source: Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

“When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”

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Author:Dorothea Lange

“I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.”

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Author:Evita Peron

“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.”

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Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”

People Has Beens Bits Poor Stones Down And Woods Treated Reputation Idols Idolatry Knocking

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.”

People Might Choices Girl Poor Assuming Knees Worn Rejected Singles Bachelors Trousers Unmarried Spinsters

Author:Jilly Cooper

“We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

People Born Poor Poverty Rich Hated Touched Poor People Rich And Poor

Book:Red ribbon on a white horse

Source: Red ribbon on a white horse

“I know we will create a society where there are no rich or poor, no people without work or beauty in their lives, where money itself will disappear, where we shall all be brothers and sisters, where every one will have enough.”

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Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

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