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“If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.”

Ifs Littles Poverty Childhood Cold Repeats If I Could Pigs

Author:Jose Saramago

“Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.”

“poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.”

Causes Process Results Poverty Economic Cold Development Prosperity Active Absence Heat Stagnation Economic Development

Book:The Economy of Cities

Source: The Economy of Cities

“Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.”

Men Left Poor Poverty Cold Spring Fortune Poor Man Better Days

Book:Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes

Source: Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes

“Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.”

Poverty Wall Cold Winter Holes Mice Popcorn

Book:Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works

Source: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works

“It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.”

“No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.”

“It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.”

Doe Matter Poverty Cold Hunger Luxury Vanity Excess Thirst Avarice Hunger And Thirst

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.”

World Love Humans Heart Real Care Loss Known Poverty Millions Cold Pity Despise Real Love Human Heart Love Respect

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.”

War Ends Poverty Masters Cold Easier Golf Cold War Stamps Pastime Devilish

Author:James Reston, Jr.

“But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.”

Children Doe Science Dies Poverty Generations Cold Birth Plant Climate Soil Severe

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

“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.”

Believe Done I Believe Social Poverty Issues Security Greatness Huge Cold Politician Generosity Social Security Elderly Franklin Admirer Cold Blooded

Author:Jon Meacham

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”