in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
To become a power the class-conscious workers must win the majority to their side. As long as no violence is used against the people there is no other road to power. We are not Blancists, we do not stand for the seizure of power by a minority.
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.
In the final analysis, the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich. We are inevitably our brothers'keeper because of the interrelated structure of reality.
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
I belong to a family of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in central Kansas, and every one of us earned our way as we went along, and it never occurred to us that we were poor, but we were.
It is easier for the unattractive girl to live a life of modesty.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.