“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
“We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.” MenPovertyRichFineOughtPhilosopherExtravagance Book:Success and Its Conditions Source: Success and Its Conditions
“In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.” WorldPovertyWindUniversalPhilosophicalPhilosopherFatsAutumnPerpetualAutumn Wind Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft, and tyranny - pray day and night for them. I am no meta physician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor, I love the poor.... Let these people be your God - think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly - the Lord will show you the way.” PeopleThinkingWayShowsNightPoorLordPovertyMillionsPrayingIndiaSaintPhilosopherTyrannyCraftsPriestsPhysiciansDay And NightIncessantlyDowntrodden Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.” WayDesireSecretPovertyGainsFortuneInjusticeVery GoodPhilosopherRichesMeritDistinctionGoodsContemptDeprivedDegradation Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!” MeanTodayPoliticalEvilPovertyHatredTransformationPrisonMiseryPhilosopherRadicalNeighborhoodMetaphysical Author:Bernard-Henri Levy