The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. —Katharine Whitehorn More about this quote Tags: children money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Poverty is not wholly a personal failure. It also represents the failure of an economic system. And the remedy is not wholly one of charity, but of political and economic action. Poverty is a reflection also on those who are not poor. —Brooks Atkinson More about this quote Tags: politics failure poverty social responsibility economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest, too. —Sting More about this quote Tags: justice conservation poverty inequality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you’re rich. If your name is on your desk, you’re middle-class. If your name is on your shirt, you’re poor. —Rich Hall More about this quote Tags: poverty economics work wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my experience, middle-class Americans do not feel at ease around poor people. Even people of high ideals who care about the needy experience discomfort in the presence of the needy themselves. —Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman More about this quote Tags: poverty class discomfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The rich are never threatened by the poor — they do not notice them. —Marie de France More about this quote Tags: poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act; he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that “they” will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that “they” would never allow it. Who were “they”? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently “they” were omnipotent. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: power poverty powerlessness they Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. —Willem de Kooning More about this quote Tags: time poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: justice law poverty equality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government taxes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach More about this quote Tags: happiness poverty wealth contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government wealth rich people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email