Blessings Quote by Alain de Botton

“The other-worldly meanings medieval people found in their lives were no more deluded than the modern humanist, nationalist and capitalist meanings modern people find.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“...we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the…

— Edmund S Phelps

“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're…

— Andrew Ashling

“A sincere person owes it to themselves to expose the frightful barbarity which still prevails in the hidden depths of a society so outwardly…

— Élisée Reclus

“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.”

— Bob

“From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their…

— Jean Sasson

“But, alas, this wealth, instead of blessing the race, has been the means of enslaving it. The few have come in possession of all,…

— Eugene V. Debs

“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.”

— Howard Thurman

“How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?”

— Carolyn Turgeon

“Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.”

— Judith Merkle Riley

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris