People Quote by Anthony B Pinn Download Open image “Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.” — Anthony B Pinn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Poor Poor people Poverty
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves. — John M. Perkins Copy Share Image
My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
The ministers argue that within the context of scripture there's a requirement given by God that you've got to give ten percent of your income to the church. And if you give ten percent - here's the hook - God is going to reward your faithfulness by giving you that ten percent back, and a whole lot more. — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share
So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches -… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
There's a separation of church and state. If you want the perks that churches have traditionally received, then abide by the rules. If you're going to be involved in the political process, even in soft ways, then surrender the privileges. Let ministers pay income tax on all of their income. Let churches pay income tax, let them pay property taxes.… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share
The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
Churches can easily bring together, in a short period of time, a substantial number of people, and politicians have to assume that these folks… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
If one has good faith, you can unlock the secrets of scripture, and in unlocking the secrets of scripture, you have access to everything God wants you to have. Ministers of megachurches become examples of the truth of that claim, because they're well paid, living in wonderful homes, driving very nice cars, dressed well. They are doing well, so if… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share
Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
What we ought to be trying to do is limit the harm that Christian communities and other religious communities can do. But we can't… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
The key figure in the Christian faith involves a story of suffering so that others do well. You're only going to get so much… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
