Money Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good there is…

— Anonymous

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

— Confucius

“In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” …

— Megan Thomason

“Poverty is a state whose feature is generosity.”

— Albert Camus

“Few things are more shameful than insolvency in a country where poverty is a moral failing.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“although a properly constrained government may be superior to statelessness, it doesn't follow that any government is superior to no government all. If a…

— Peter T. Leeson

“The state, rather, is a parasitic institution that lives off the wealth of its subjects, concealing its anti-social, predatory nature beneath a public-interest veneer.”

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and exile, or,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Poverty doesn’t allow of honourable feeling, any more than of compassion.”

— George Gissing

“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.”

— Isabel Paterson