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“The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.”

Strong Poverty Seeing Weak Misery Idle Distress Incapable Benevolence Starvation Decree

Book:The Man versus the State: Great Essays

Source: The Man versus the State: Great Essays

“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Poverty Four Mankind Hundred Remedy Physicians Distress Plague Wisest Infallible Malady Ailments

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.”

Important War Today Causes Poverty Conditions Produce International Deeper Tension Continuing Distress

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate”

“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.”

People Humans Whole Natural Race Poverty Millions Land Resources Crisis Greed Human Race Forty Shelter Distress Stolen Natural Resources Public Lands

Author:Denis Kearney

“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”

People Want Passion Causes Poverty Greater Honest Crime Endure Hardship Elsewhere Thieves Distress Fortitude Misers Honest People Crimes Of Passion

Book:The Portable William Blake

Source: The Portable William Blake

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.”

People Needs Believe Long Government Political Evil I Believe Wealth Poor Poverty Politician Plenty Distress Adversaries Governing Purpose Of Government Evil Government

Book:A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

Source: A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

“The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."”

People Ifs Way Doe Said Desire Hate Names Wealth Poverty Masters Amount Honor Worthy Gentleman Meals Abandon Despise Distress Avoided Disgrace Urgency

Author:Confucius