Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.
And plenty makes us poor.
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
