Abandonment Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition,…

— Tacitus

“From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from…

— H.W. Brands

“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.”

— Thomas Sowell

But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear,…

— David Hume

“Greeders who plunder and steal from their people - not only steal their supporters and their childrens' future, but they also smash their mindsets…

— Tony Dovale

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

— Zhu Rongji

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

— Francis Quarles

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing…

— Bible

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to…

— Jose Rizal

“They rob the poor under the over of law, while we plunder the rich under the protection of our courage. We are free princes…

— Rima Jean

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

— James Russell Lowell