It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.

Every time I look at my wallet; I don’t care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it make for this time food?

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

‘Salaam Bombay’ didn’t put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being...

Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.

That’s why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn’t want money because money was power; she wanted it because she’d been poor, and money cures poverty. […]...

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That’s what it’s like to be rich.Here’s what it’s like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can’t find...

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring...

Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all … The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of...

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don’t throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

I don’t dress like I have any money. And I don’t have any money, which helps enable me to dress like that.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

We weren’t wealthy but we definitely weren’t poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd’s Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen.

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.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities....

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite; they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they...

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with...

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.

It’s so funny you judge me arrogant after I succeeded.You didn’t help me at all when I was so poor and needy.

That’s it? That’s all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?” Marshall smirked. “Woe is me.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

The poor stay poor here because they do not save enough.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: ‘We’ll be poor, won’t we? Like people in books. And I’ll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!’ She stopped and raised...

There’s nothing that says love like getting money as a gift, and then giving it away to the needy.

Naten s’kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience...

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m here because those people...

An afro is a poor man’s haircut.