Poor - Quotes
If TV has taught me anything, it`s that miracles always happen to poor kids at Christmas.
Collective thinking is usually short-lived. We`re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man`s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
The great moral questions of the present age are those about human rights, war, poverty, the vast disparities between rich and poor, the fact that somewhere in the third world a child dies every two and a half seconds because of starvation or remediable disease. The churches` obsessions over pre-marital sex and whether divorced couples can remarry in church appears contemptible in the light of this mountain of human suffering and need. By distracting attention from what really counts, and focusing it on the minor and anyway futile attempt to get people to conduct their personal lives only in ways the church permits, harm is done to the cause of good in the world.
The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we`re too poor to buy our freedom.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.