#poor

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#muslim #muslim world #poorest #powers #today

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #live #make #mistake #never

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ↗

— Aristotle

#democracy #majority #more #more power #poor

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. ↗

— Plato

#deceive #earth #equal #god #however

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. ↗

— Mary Astell

#consider #contemptible #creatures #fly #god

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#case #man #poor #poor man #pride

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chew #dictated #fill #hunger #language

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

#children #christ #conscience #entreat #fatherless