Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
I had a dream about you. We were both surrounded by poor people, but there was one big difference—I was poor, but you were rich. That’s why I was shocked when you tried to rob me. After all, I was one of many who voted you into power.
Everybody is important, have some element is peculiarity and a story to tell. Also not only that, a story to learn from. We don't just gain from individuals of impact yet the poor as well. Don't only learn from people of influence only, but the poor ...
I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provi...
Danilov: I've been such a fool, Vassili. Man will always be a man. There is no new man. We tried so hard to create a society that was equal, where there'd be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there's always something to envy. A smile, a friendship,...
Nobody feels ashamed of going to the dentist; it’s socially appropriate to take care of your teeth, even preventively. In short, it’s more normal to take care of our dental health than our mental health . . . it’s more acceptable to care for ou...
Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor.
If a bird knew how poor he was it wouldn't sing so beautifully.
He who lends to the poor get his interest from God.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.
However poor the elephant, it will be worth more than ten frogs.
At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
A rich man loves to work, a poor man loves to eat.
The poor are sad they're poor, Adam had once mused, and turns out the rich are sad they're rich.
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
