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Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Quotes by Karl Marx

A great artist is never poor.

Quotes by Karen Blixen

Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

Quotes by Kamal Haasan

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

Quotes by Kailash Satyarthi

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

Quotes by Justin Rosenstein

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Quotes by Jupiter Hammon

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Quotes by Jules Michelet

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

Jules Verne

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

Quotes by Jules Massenet

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

Quotes by Joyce Banda

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Quotes by Josiah Royce

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Quotes by Josiah Strong

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Quotes by Josiah Strong

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

Quotes by Josiah Warren

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Quotes by Joshua Reynolds

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

Quotes by Josh Radnor

As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.

Quotes by Josh Hawley

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Quotes by Joseph Stalin

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Quotes by Joseph Jefferson

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

Quotes by Jose Mujica

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

Quotes by Jose Mujica

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Quotes by Jose Mujica

The Dominican is a real nice place to go for vacation. It is a poor country, but it has another side. Beautiful beaches. It's like every country. You're going to have a lot of poor people, but there's a beautiful side, too.

Quotes by Jose Reyes

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Quotes by Jonathan Kozol

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Quotes by Jonathan Lethem

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.

Quotes by Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Quotes by John Wooden

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Quotes by John Turner

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

Quotes by John Thaw

Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.

Quotes by John Shimkus

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

John Steinbeck

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

Quotes by John Shelton Reed

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

Quotes by John Shelton Reed

My main argument against staying in the E.U. has been the poor economic record of the E.U. as a whole and the eurozone in particular. The performance has got worse the more the E.U. has developed joint policies and central controls.

Quotes by John Redwood

In high school, I was a poor student.

Quotes by John Prine

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

Quotes by John Piper

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Quotes by John Nelson Darby

The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.

Quotes by John McDonnell

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Quotes by John McGahern

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

Quotes by John McGahern

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Quotes by John Lydon

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

Quotes by John Keegan

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

Quotes by John Hume

Money isn't everything, but the gaps between rich districts and poor districts ultimately mean a workforce that won't be as competitive as it could be, and individual Coloradans won't be as successful as they could be.

Quotes by John Hickenlooper

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Quotes by John Goodman

When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

Quotes by John Garfield

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

Quotes by John Delaney

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Quotes by John Chrysostom

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Quotes by John Clayton

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

Quotes by John Cameron

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Quotes by John Bunyan

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

Quotes by John Bright

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Quotes by John Agyekum Kufuor

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

Quotes by John Adams

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Quotes by Johann Most

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

Quotes by Johann Arndt

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

Quotes by Joel A. Barker

I come from a poor family.

Quotes by Joe R. Lansdale

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

Quotes by Joe Jamail

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Quotes by Joe Jamail

My family were really poor.

Quotes by Joe Gilgun

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Quotes by Joao Lourenco

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Quotes by Joan Chen

I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

Quotes by Jimmy Swaggart

When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.

Quotes by Jimmy John Liautaud

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Quotes by Jim Wallis

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

Quotes by Jim Wallis

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

Quotes by Jim Wallis

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

Quotes by Jim Gibbons

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Quotes by Jim Dale

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Quotes by Jesus Christ

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

Quotes by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Working-class actors have no identity. Our identity is playing every single poor person on 'Game Of Thrones.'

Quotes by Jessica Barden

I grew up poor.

Quotes by Jessica Chastain

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

I've been poor most of my life.

Quotes by Jermaine Fowler

I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.

Quotes by Jejomar Binay

The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.

Quotes by Jejomar Binay

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Quotes by Jeff Ross

God has always been hard on the poor.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Marat

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

Quotes by Jean-Claude Juncker

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

Quotes by Jean-Bertrand Aristide

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Quotes by Jean Anouilh

When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

Quotes by Jay-Z

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

Quotes by Jay-Z

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

Quotes by Jay IDK

Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.

Quotes by Jay Inslee

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