Archive for the ‘poverty’ Category
Everyone has an opinion on the poor and the causes of deprivation and we’ve collected the thoughts of those who would tell us how to solve poverty or help us have hope through laughter.
Alan Watts: Poverty Imagination
on Thursday, December 24, 2020Alan Watts Money Quote saying we have poverty because there is a poverty of imagination and nobody knows how to enjoy real wealth. Alan Watts said:
“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination” — Alan Watts
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Benjamin Franklin: Poverty Deprives
on Tuesday, December 1, 2020Benjamin Franklin Money Quote saying it’s difficult for someone who is empty to stand against the winds that blow down their spirit. Benjamin Franklin said:
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright” — Benjamin Franklin
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Feeling Poor
on Saturday, November 28, 2020Ralph Waldo Emerson Money Quote saying you become what you believe you are – rich or poor. Ralph Waldo Emerson said:
“Poverty consists in feeling poor” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don Boudreaux: Innate Wealth
on Tuesday, November 24, 2020Don Boudreaux Money Quote saying there are reasons for some things that money can’t explain or resolve – no matter our expectations. Don Boudreaux said:
“Poverty has no causes. Wealth has causes. But capitalism has been so enormously successful at producing widespread material abundance that we today … regard wealth as innate to our existence, as our default mode. It is not” — Don Boudreaux
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Eric Butterworth: Poverty Living
on Sunday, October 25, 2020Eric Butterworth Money Quote saying that both haves and have-nots create their financial state in their minds. Eric Butterworth said:
“Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things” — Eric Butterworth
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Proverbs: Poverty Nor Riches
on Wednesday, September 30, 2020Proverbs Money Quote saying all that is required is daily needs – not wealth or poverty, but necessities. Proverbs said:
“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread” — Proverbs 30:8
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Gerald Brenan: Poor Know Money
on Monday, September 21, 2020Gerald Brenan Money Quote saying people of means can allow that love matters above all, but those without understand they need money. Gerald Brenan said:
“Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money” — Gerald Brenan
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Muhammad Yunus: Created Poverty
on Thursday, September 10, 2020Muhammad Yunus Money Quote saying we created the conditions and organizations that are the cause of poverty. Muhammad Yunus said:
“Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built and feel so proud of, which created poverty” — Muhammad Yunus
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