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Poor Quotes by Adam Smith
- No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
- The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
- Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things,…
- Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the…
- Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence…
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- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our… — Pope Francis
- I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor… — Winston Churchill
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr