Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees. "
Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U. S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.
Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.
I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame,. . I think we are all to blame.
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store. . . To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.
I have the grace of providence to be poor.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.
Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.
Look poor, think rich.
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all
Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.
