Poverty Quotes

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life.

When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.

Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.

The best way to convert time is to find out your calling, find out your divine gifting and convert your time into developing your gift and your calling.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

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