Pauperism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Pauperism.
Top Quotes
“Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!”
“As regards pauperism, the government subsidizes Protestant and Catholic orphan houses.”
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“Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.]]”
“Many of them fell into the slough of pauperism, and were saved from starvation by public doles.”
“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
“A rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.”
“He is glad to give and distribute; and clamorous pauperism feasteth. While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.”
“All that is seen is my form, ant, fly, prince, and pauper.”
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
“To continue in poverty for any long period means in the end the loss of the power of doing work, and to be unable to work means in the end pauperism.”
“And as he saw the beginning of wealth, he noted the first appearance of pauperism. He saw degradation forming as he saw the advent of leisure and affluence.”
“Individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.”
“The true line to be drawn between pauperism and honest poverty is the clothes-line. With it begins the effort to be clean that is the first and the best evidence of a desire to be honest.”
“Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.”
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
“I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.”
“Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.”
“Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.”