Pauperism Quotes

#1. To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

Herman Melville

#2. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.

Isabella Bird

#3. Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#4. Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.

Vladimir Lenin

#6. On Sundays Mom invariably ran out of money, which is when she cracked eggs into the skillet over cubes of fried black sourdough bread. It was, I think, the most delicious and eloquent expression of pauperism.

Anya Von Bremzen

#7. Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

Joseph Hume

#8. Three great problems of the century - the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light - are unsolved;

Victor Hugo

#9. I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Clamorous pauperism feastest
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#11. The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Anish Kapoor

#12. Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

George W. Bush

#13. America has but one main problem
the character of the men and women it shall produce.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. We cannot complain to the possibility.

Akiane Kramarik

#15. The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Philip Yancey

#16. I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

Carroll Shelby

#17. The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Rumi

#18. Don't drink fluoridated water ... Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.

Charles Bernhard Heyd

#19. The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.

Robert Gottlieb

#20. Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Joshua Waitzkin

#21. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country.

Jim Webb

#22. If you stay in the word of God then you'll get a fresh leading of new things to share. I share my testimony of what God has done, but there's certain things that when I slip into the Word and let God speak to me through His Word and it's a fresh thing for me to share.

Jeremy Camp