More on Poverty
The ethical ideas on which civilization rests have been wandering about the world, poverty-stricken and homeless.
Poverty united to bad conduct utterly destroys and upturns the life of man.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
David Hume Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741)
Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.
After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
The fake love of ressentiment man offers no real help, since for his perverted sense of values, evils like “sickness” and “poverty” have become goods.
Max Scheler Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912)
It is good to be told, in a world often marked by violence, poverty, and despair, that God loves us.
Frankly, I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left me.
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