If the goal is to help the poor, why not give them the money directly?
Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
When you have no money your life is one long series of snubs.
No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.
There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.
A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.
A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
Making money from business is happiness, but making other people happy is super happiness.
By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.