Poorer Quotes

176 quotes by 159 authors

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the… — Donald Berwick
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support… — Theodore Bikel
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education. — Anne Campbell
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much… — George F. Kennan
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of… — Bernard de Mandeville
We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger. — Charles Lamb
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now… — Anton Chekhov
Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A… — Rajneesh
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. — Ludwig von Mises
The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. — Laozi
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because you have nothing… — Rajneesh
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt… — Sandy Koufax
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than… — J. G. Holland
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is… — Gough Whitlam
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick,… — Kofi Annan
Of course I know our economic growth can't match our population growth so of course I know we'll all get poorer until we get that… — Bernard Chidzero
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin

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