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"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation.
Quote by -Ludwig Von Mises
"Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its economic structure. We will build power through boycotts, strikes, new union - whatever techniques we can develop. These attacks on the status quo will come, not because we hate, but because we know America can construct a humane society for all its citizens - and that if it does not, there will chaos."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
Quote by -Henry Ford
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them. He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land, and in the price of the greater part of commodities, makes a third”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Quote by -Walter Bagehot
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.
Quote by -William Seward
Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'-- Stephen Colbert
Quote by -Stephen Colbert
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken