"Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far
better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in
the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.--The
Strenuous Life"
"History records that the money changers have used every form of
abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain
their control over governments by controlling money and its
issuance. -James Madison"
"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Peace--Mother Teresa"
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. --Andy Warhol (topic: business)"
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. --John Ruskin (topic: beauty) "
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance. --Sir Claus Moser (topic: education)"
"If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. --Edgar Watson Howe (topic: money) "
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary. --Jules Feiffer "
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. --Woody Allen (topic: money)"
"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (topic: money)"
"It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor. --Vinob Bhave (1895-1982)"
"Money is the poor people's credit card.--Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)"
"The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between taxpayers and tax consumers."
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
"Some people pay their bills when due, some when they're overdue, and some never do.Earl Wilson"
"When the rich make war it's the poor that die.---Jean-Paul Sartre"
"Nothing is easier than spreading public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.--Coolidge, Calvin"
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. --Jean Kerr "
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. --Lyndon B. Johnson"
"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. —John Henry Boetker "
"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. --Georges Bernanos (topic: poverty)"
"The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.-- Sholom Aleichem"
"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.--Douglas Casey (1992) "
"No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.--Hector Hugh Munro"
"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. --Mother Teresa"
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. --Albert Einstein"
"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.--George Bernard Shaw "
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
-Ludwig Von Mises"
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.--John Berger";
"Poverty.. The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. --Franklin D. Roosevelt "
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --Ralph Waldo Emerson "
"One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both. --Edouard Bourdet"
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