Quote by Robert L. Heilbroner

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

— Adam Smith

“What we need to make a more decent society is not a few Splendid Samaritans but millions of Minimally Decent Samaritans.”

— Anonymous

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been…

— Marcel Proust

“Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become…

— George Orwell

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away,…

— Victor Hugo

“A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.”

— Elijah Onyenmeriogu

“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores…

— Thomas More

“The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day…

— Emma Wildes