“What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'” EndsGovernmentActionLawHateNationsDarkPovertyGroupsHabitDemandLatePhilosopherGenuineAliensNovelistsEtcImmigrantsLogicalIllegalBroadsSouthernBrushesOpposingAffirmative ActionAffirmativeLynchingIllegal AliensDark SkinnedHate GroupsGovernment Service Author:Don Feder
“Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.” EndsWisdomPoliticsPovertyEconomyHabitLiberalismRepublicMonarchyLuxurious Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.” PovertyBrotherHabitDebtTwinsTwin Brother Author:Theodore T. Munger
“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.” SecretPovertyBrotherHabitVicesDebtTwinsFoeIdlenessThriftTwin Brother Author:Theodore T. Munger
“Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.” GivingChildrenPoorPovertyHabitGive MeStayingNeighborhoodIllegalCashMondayShowing UpPoor ChildrenPoor Neighborhoods Author:Newt Gingrich
“Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order is an artificial accomplishment, the result of an accumulation of habits, hectoring, moral stricture and physical coercion. Once order is dissolved, it takes hard measures to restore it” PersonsCountryHardSufferingOrderSocialResultsMoralPovertyHabitFlowAccomplishmentArtificialStableAccumulationCoercionSocial OrderDisorganization Author:David Brooks
“I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty.” IfsShowsJobsValuesChancePovertyHabitDisciplineVery GoodWork OutImprovementCooperationFrozenGood Chance Author:Charles Koch