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Poor Quotes by Will Durant
- In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in…
- An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give…
- Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that…
- by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
More Poor Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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