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“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

Desire Poverty Honest Conscience Praise Prosperity Corners Riches Virtuous Inaction

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.”

Firsts Existence Poverty Conscience Charity Ill Awakening Proof Unjust Robbers Organised

Book:Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

“Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.”

Helping Christian Used Stars Poverty Rich Taken Conscience Helping Others Vow Uneasy Christian Music

Author:Amy Grant

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Want Giving Mean Hard Age Action Enjoy Born Hours Wealth Pleasure Poverty Clear Comfort Conscience Labor Guilt Wealth And Poverty

Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!”

Soul Suffering Poverty Integrity Pure Despair Conscience Disappointment Riches Luxury Anguish Grandeur

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.”

Men Poor Poverty Cry Conscience Hunger Stealing Stomach Craving Poor Man Appease

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.”

Social Vision Poverty Crime Conscience Direct Violent Artistic Materialism Lacking Atrocities Correlation Artistic Vision

Author:Vanna Bonta

“But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.”

Want Country Attention Leader Moral Steps Poverty Depends Conscience Commitment Want U Step Up Transient

Author:John Edward

“Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!”

“Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!”

Men Feels Poor Poverty He Man Conscience Immune Scorpions

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.”

Thinking Knows Made Facts Sides Class Poverty Imagine Position Conscience Difficulty Working Class Both Sides Comprehending

Author:Catherine Camus

“[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty.”

Knows Giving Mean Class Poverty Greater Conscience Addresses Working Class Proximity

Author:Catherine Camus

“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”

Men Should Heart Done Action Young Fighting Poverty Doubt Conscience Men And Women Young Man Hopeless Hopelessness Zoos Being Done

Author:Abbe Pierre

“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”

Way Want Helping Use Problem Poor Responsibility Poverty Worry Offers Findings Solutions Conscience Charity Initiative Recognizing Appease Help The Poor Solutions To Poverty

Author:Muhammad Yunus