Poor Quotes
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Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and…
— Pope Pius XI
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Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing…
— Mother Teresa
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can…
— Etty Hillesum
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We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless…
— Caryll Houselander
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The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor,…
— Pope Paul VI
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith…
— Pope John XXIII
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Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of…
— Oscar Romero
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The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are…
— Odo of Cluny
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The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous…
— Jeff Cooper
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There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.…
— Michael Novak
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Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.
— Peter Thomas Bauer
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
— Albert Einstein
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We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich…
— Paul Brooks
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Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so…
— Anandamayi Ma
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they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as…
— Pat Robertson
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Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in…
— Dr. Seuss
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If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of…
— Robert Muller
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If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the immensely rich and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Unfortunately, we are very poor with PR skills but in serving people- we are superhero.
— Ghulam Nabi Azad
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Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the…
— Francis Quarles
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In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes…
— Rajneesh
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of…
— George Washington
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