America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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Criss Jami
Life… For some it is battle for others its dance... For rich it is party for poor it is chance!
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Nino Varsimashvili
Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by...
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Aleister Crowley
I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes 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.
The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between...
There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.
