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“Funny, isn’t it? We middle-class people secretly want that the poor should remain poor, as poverty is a necessary condition for an easy supply of servants. Yet out in the open, we pretend that the penury of the masses concerns us deeply. We hide who we are and wear masks. All of us.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“A rich man exploits the poor and then donates some money to a temple. Then temple helps the poor. These are circles of life. If you try to break them, you will end up becoming a part of them. Have compassion for everyone involved in the circles, including yourself. This is the only way to be free from them.”
― Shunya

“The stupidest thing people who have everything think about people who have nothing is that it's pride that stops a person from asking for help.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“This is why we can’t leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powdered wigs—they have no idea.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Exiles

“The rich take care of the rich and the poor take care of those who have less than they have.”
― Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising

“It is clear that in America the tilt in favor of the rich is becoming steeper.”
― David Gottstein, A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America

“How I love to hear the rich and titled, the magistrates and the priests, how I love to watch them preach virtue to us! It is very hard to keep oneself from stealing when one has three times more than one to live! A great strain to never think of murder when one is surrounded by sycophants and slaves for whom your will is law! Truly difficult to be temperate and sober when one is at all times surrounded by the most succulent dishes! So difficult for them to be sincere when they have no reason to lie!”
― Marquis de Sade, Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue

“you don’t need to be rich to care for people. You only need to be creative and willing to meet them where they’re at.”
― Ben Crawford, 2,000 Miles Together: The Story of the Largest Family to Hike the Appalachian Trail

“The couple had only lived a short while in that village, and they were poor as rats. Leonarda's husband bought damaged cigarettes, personally extracted his own teeth, ate meat and polenta twice a week, drank mate from an earthenware mug, never took his wife to the movies, and when she was ill he took her to a veterinarian.”
― Silvina Ocampo, The Promise

“Poor is not the one who has no money, poor is the one who has no purpose.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Every community is called to be an instrument for the liberation and promotion of the poor.”
― Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“* If you are born poor it's not your mistake, But if you die poor it's your mistake.
- Bill Gates

* As nature each one born equal, the world divides that into the classes for its motives. It is not a mistake; one born and die rich or poor. It is one's fate since the world runs with it.
Ehsan Sehgal”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“No one is poor who prays.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“No one is poor who writes poetry.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“No one is poor who's sole purpose is to pray.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“No man is poor who prays.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The two friends enjoyed wandering through this place. It was small. Only a city block. Unobtrusive. This was where some of the pioneer workers of Seattle were laid to rest. Laborers who worked in sawmills. Regular folk born when Seattle was a mill town. Regular working class, now buried under ground stones. These folk had to fight to simply survive. Remembered by their children and grandchildren, they worked for a better tomorrow for those they loved. These people had smiled, and danced, and hoped. They had lived.

Now buried, most had no fancy education to show for their troubles. They were not part of the elite, yet those who lay here were great. These souls were not the most renowned or powerful, but were, in truth, the best of the world. As Zin and Obia wandered through, they saw various headstones were flat, unobtrusive, and resting in the grass. Right in the ground, without any markers.”
― Ruth Ann Oskolkoff, Zin

“she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together”
― Kathryn Spink, Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography

“Inequality may not be fair but is necessary for progress.

When resources are distributed to people equally, you establish equality of outcome. If you photograph for a living or build rockets to colonize solar system - equality of outcome will establish the same value for both. It does not reward for resource-intensive and risky operations and discourages the development & progress because it's as valuable as photographing. Any reasonable person will do less complicated things if he is compensated in the same way.

BUT, when resources are unequally distributed - it distributes values too. It means it systemically designs 'rich & poor' people. It means if you are poor, then you can become rich. To complete this transformation, you must do something valuable. In this way, minor and huge progress happens. No matter if you are rich or poor - you will need opportunities.

It is the way we interact with opportunities constructs inequality.”
― Thomas Vato

“We live in a world where empty glasses are called paupers and juice-filled glasses are the rich. Painted water is not always what it is when transparency is part of the package.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Warum arbeiten wir heute härter als in den achtziger Jahren, obwohl wir reicher sind als je zuvor? Warum leben immer noch Millionen Menschen in Armut, obwohl wir reich genug sind, um der Armut ein für alle Mal ein Ende zu machen? Und warum hängen mehr als 60 Prozent unseres Einkommens davon ab, in welchem Land wir geboren wurden?”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“Armut wird im Grunde durch einen Mangel and Geld verursacht", erklärt der Ökonom Joseph Hanlon. "Sie hat nichts mit Dummheit zu tun. Ein Mensch, der keine Haare auf dem Kopf hat, kann sich nicht am eigenen Schopf aus dem Sumpf ziehen.”
― Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

“They say we are too poor. Can a heart which possesses God really be called poor?”
― St. Claire

“Provide for the poor. Help the needy. You can’t go higher than the level of your generosity”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Plenty is the peace of the poor.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Law is not meant to govern the rich, but is meant to govern the poor. That is why rich people always do what they want and can even undermine the law anytime they want. Nothing will be done to them, because the law was designed to protect them from the poor.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It is easy to manipulate poor people. That is why politicians and system makes sure that people remain poor and so they can be depended on them for everything in order to control them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos