Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone__ concern and like vampires they suck our life__ blood.
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.
Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...
Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.
It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.
Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)
Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter
Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!
No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds..." Chap. 1, p. 12
If love was Jesus's greatest commandment, why dont more christians do so? This is the greatest sin, if Jesus in fact gave us one and only commandment and we dont follow! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR SOMEONE ELSE, LIKE I DID FOR YOU!!! THAT IS CHRISTIANITY, SERVE THE POOR...
I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.
My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don__ have time for everything.