Quotes About Indigence

#1. Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

Michel De Montaigne

#2. In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.

Samuel Richardson

#4. Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.

Adam Smith

#5. Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

William Faulkner

#8. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

Samuel Johnson

#9. The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

Iain M. Banks

#10. Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.

Ymatruz

#12. There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#13. Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.

James Madison

#14. On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

Edwidge Danticat

#15. My dad is just like everybody else's dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I've never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

Peter Uihlein

#16. There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#17. How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

Emoke B'Racz

#18. There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.

Megan Fox

#19. Relax," he says, "You're with me. I'm practically French."
"You're English."
He grins. "I'm American.

Stephanie Perkins

#20. The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.

Nicholas Royle

#21. Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

Russell Westbrook