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Monday, June 10th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Quotations regarding 'Poor'

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Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez, American Activist (1927-1993)
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
Hugo Chavez, Statesman (1954-  )
Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.
Joan Chen, Chinese Actress (1961-  )
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher, American Musician (1946-  )
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman (1694-  )
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
Stephen Chow, Chinese Actor (1962-  )
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ, Clergyman
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom, Clergyman
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill, English Statesman (1874-1965)
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna Ciccone, American Musician (1958-  )
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
Albert Claude, Belgian Scientist (1899-1983)
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
John Clayton, -
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland, American President (1837-1908)
Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
William J. Clinton, American President (1946-  )
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud, Sioux Statesman
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett, English Politician (1763-1835)
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett, English Politician (1763-1835)
 
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