Best simple & poor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask moral questions. For example, just because we have the economic muscle to buy up vast amounts of the world's oil, does that give us the right to do so? When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

“One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.”

World Mind Facts Simple Poor Population Illiterate

Book:Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

Poetry Born Simple Poor Cities Fields Flower Woods Strain Lanes Meadows Aloof

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“The simple truth is that technology is still a poor substitute for human interaction.”

Humans Stills Simple Poor Technology Truth Is Substitutes Interaction Simple Truths

Author:Robert G. Thompson

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.”

People Ifs Believe Hard Young Opportunity Belief I Believe Nations Simple Poor Party Race Responsibility Rich Hard Work Profound Notion Regions Taking Responsibility Get Ahead Rich Or Poor

Author:Barack Obama

“For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.”

Simple Poor Cities Mystery Century Pope Quarrels Fringe Emperor Living On Countryside Illustration Outcast Wondrous Excluded Humiliated Parables Leper Leprosy

Book:Name of the Rose

Source: Name of the Rose

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

“The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.”

Children Law Parent Simple Poor Rich Limits Equal Brave Ignorant Cunning

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?”

World Running Water Simple Poor Demand India Blame Farmers Consumerism Pumps Overconsumption Gasoline Gallons

Author:Richard J. Foster

“A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.”

Ifs Giving Humans Heart Doe Care Simple Poor Rich Trouble Dog Clever Educated Dull Sophisticated Wiser Illiterate Rich Or Poor

Book:Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

Source: Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

“The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.”

People Ifs Law Wealth Simple Poor Evidence Tradition Convinced Doctrine All Time Acquire Immortal Definite Imposing Charlatans Tricksters

Author:Lucian

“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.”

World Two Simple Poor Poverty Struggle Rich Environment Land Resources Crisis

Author:Petra Kelly

“When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.”

People World States Reason Today Jesus Simple Poor Enemy Saws Dangerous Demand Appeals Unconditional Amnesty Food Love Peace Love

Book:Sophie's World

Source: Sophie's World

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