Quotes of: Poor-substitute Keyword

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Pope Francis

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Sydenham

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Barbara Castle

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

Vera Nazarian

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.

Zanjabil

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Emma Thompson

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Gwen Moore

A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.

Chinese

The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don't know what poverty means.

Chinese

The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.

Chinese

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God ...

The Sacred Echo: Hearing God's Voice in Every Area of Your Life

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

A brick could be used as a substitute for the brother I never had. It seems ridiculous, but I’ve always wanted a brother who was smarter than the average politician. 

Blanket

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

J. G. Ballard

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath