“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.” GivingCareOpportunityImaginationPovertyHistoryWifeDangerSolitudeFemaleDressesPainfulEntertainmentSensesTemptationMannersMidnightEleganceBarbariansRoman EmpireFrailtySecuredSpectaclesLuxuriousDomestic Life Book:The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith
“Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.” FacesBlackImaginationJusticeWhitePovertyEconomicCryDesperateActualityEconomic Justice Author:Darryl Pinckney
“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.” WarLanguageInterestImaginationPovertyViolenceRacismLaborPrisonEnvironmentalManifestationTortureCapitalistSensibilityMisogynyCapital Punishment Author:Lawrence Joseph
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.” PeopleRealImaginationPleasurePoorPovertyFantasyModelsDrawingPoor PeopleReal Things Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.” UseUsedImaginationPovertyUsed To BeCraftsShopsHobbiesSupplies Author:Amy Sedaris
“You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.” ThinkingWayDifferentUseJoyStuffImaginationPovertyCome UpDifferent Ways Author:Amy Sedaris
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.” PeopleThinkingKnowsReasonValuesEnjoyImaginationWealthMoneyPovertyKnow HowProsperityAccumulating Wealth Author:Alan Watts