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We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#poverty #poverty

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#prosperity #poverty

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#terror #poverty

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#poverty

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#defeat

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#hitler #victory #defeat

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#opal #defeat

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#maya-angelou #defeat

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#intolerance #prejudice #racism #tolerance #defeat