A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

Some people will only “love u ” as much as they can use u. their loyalty end’s where the benefits stop

The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’...

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

We can’t accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5-percent cuts in food stamps or 5-percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the...

Wakati mwingine inaweza kuonekana kuwa kadiri unavyozidi kujitolea kwa ajili ya watu wengine ndivyo unavyozidi kuwa maskini, lakini hii si kweli. Huduma kwa ajili ya watu wengine huleta maana fulani na ukamilifu katika maisha yetu...

Growing up I was so poor I wore coffee cups as shoes. The good part was my feet never fell asleep.

I grew up poor in crappy situations… various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers...

Torch strode over and stared at the fiver”What’s this?””Some change for you. Buy your flunkies some decent clothes.” I dipped my fingers into the jar and smeared think fragrant paste on my face. Torch frowned,...

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world; but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because...

God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are...

we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society...

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don’t want; and then they get tired of coming.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I have nothing, so I think having something would mean everything to me. But I don’t want to get to the point where I have everything, so having something would mean nothing to me.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that....

What makes the Stones’ arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren’t rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

You know you’re down and out when Okies laugh at you,’ she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we’d out-Okied the Okies.

Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They’ll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society – how a few people could live in luxury...

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.

POOR ANGUSOh what do you do, poor Angus,When hunger makes you cry?”I fix myself an omelet, sir,Of fluffy clouds and sky.”Oh what do you wear, poor Angus,When winds blow down the hills?”I sew myself a...

bad bitch” where they end up broke, and miserable Becuz their busy trying to impress a bad bitch. A bad bitch will cheat on you a REAL WOMAN gone hold it down take care of...

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed – to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn’t much food. They ate with care...

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with...

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

Love can make a flower more fragrant, a blue sky bluer, and an empty bank account emptier. I should probably sign up for another credit card.

Don’t ever think that life is unfair. People may be different in status and identity, but what matters most is your personality. God created all humans with equal love and attention. In times that you...

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony.

If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

Regular people are used to rudeness; we get it all the time, we’re inured to it. The wealthy aren’t; it hurts their feelings, or whatever they have in there.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because...

Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are “Players”, pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas!

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have...

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.