Indigent Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
— Samuel Johnson
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
— Tony Snow
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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the…
— Drew Pinsky
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To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of…
— James Madison
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The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and…
— Laurance Labadie
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May God preserve me from being rich while they are indigent, from enjoying robust health if I do not try to cure their diseases, from…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of…
— Dorothy Day
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The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves…
— Theodor Adorno
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Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the…
— David Letterman
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There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single…
— Pete Earley
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
— Muriel Barbery
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His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
— J M Coetzee
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When you are diligent with your intelligent,you can not be indigent
— Olalekan Ayo Omojayogbe
Who Wrote These Indigent Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Indigent Quotes as follows: