The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
On the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends… — Johan Cruijff Copy Share Image
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks… — Bat Masterson Copy Share Image
Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Shakespearean tragedies do not deal chiefly with the working-class people and focus mostly on the fall of the kings, princes, generals etc.… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Look, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing ,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The strength of my country lies in the huts of the poor; in the villages; in the youth, mothers and sisters; in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs… — C. K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The mass incarceration of poor people of color, particularly black men, has emerged as a new caste system, one specifically designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor… — Paul Kersey Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided.… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us… — Margaret Maron Copy Share Image
I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking… — Joseph Bruce Copy Share Image
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one… — Rod Taylor Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, despite being a poor… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image