…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble,… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and… — Philip Agee Copy Share Image
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
He shook me, and despite it being one-handed, it made my teeth rattle. “If anything like that ever happens again. You. Leave.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it --… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly,… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
![“We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e74/jon-gordon-1655_apartment_we-were-poor-with-my-mother-and-we-didn_3229414.jpg)
