The Poor Quotes

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

He that would travel much, should eat little.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.

Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

None are deceived but they that confide.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.