#poor

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#crave #i #i am #little #more

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. ↗

— Barney Frank

#actively #also #decisions #etc #how

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dirtiest #drawings #huts #i #i see

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#idle #just #know #never #poor

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#blue #blue sky #build #clear #dam

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#class #concern #democratic #democratic party #economic

The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#already #among #change #chief #climate

Though I be poor, I'm honest. ↗

— Thomas Middleton

#i #poor #though

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#important #less #life #much #poor