#pov

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ↗

— Mae West

#conquers #except #love #poverty #things

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient ↗

— Milton Berle

#poverty #truth #inspirational

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#glaring #look #poverty #revolution #soon

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#men

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#come #competition #customers #end #endure

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#money #poverty #progress #wealth #money

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#call #creator #daily #daily life #enough