The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live! Benjamin Disraeli
No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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George Bernard Shaw
The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy’s famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies...
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William McPherson
Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.
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Saji Ijiyemi
I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand droppings ofthe past, theirvoices thickwith greaseand ordure, sewer-greedto corrode the earwith the horrorsof the pastand the voidsof new stupidity. One could drownwaiting for the poorto makeone fine distinction. Yes,...
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Norman Mailer
More Quotes By Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
