I wasn’t afraid of being poor. I didn’t want to live in a big house. I’m the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
Poor
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I feel it’s part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.