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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! -- George Eliot
Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. -- Tony Campolo
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich. -- Holbrook Jackson
Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor. -- Lupe Fiasco
Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. -- Jesus Christ
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power. -- Gabriele Nanni
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work. -- Eric Maskin
Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease. -- Joel Fuhrman
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. -- Baruch Spinoza
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods. -- Ziggy Marley
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible. -- Marty Meehan
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. -- Mother Teresa
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer. -- Pope Francis
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. -- Polly Toynbee
It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. -- Penn Jillette
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world. -- Stanley Hauerwas
No one ever became poor from giving. -- Anne Frank
Giving a poor person money keeps them poor. -- Robert Kiyosaki
No one has ever become poor by giving. -- Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor from giving. -- Maya Angelou
Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality. -- C. S. Lewis
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange. -- Thiruvalluvar
It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another. -- Thomas More
The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor. -- David Servant
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead... -- Robert Kiyosaki
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. -- Liya Kebede
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.] -- George Herbert
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. -- Alan King
Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor. -- Pope Francis
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks. -- Bill McKibben
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. -- Criss Jami
I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products. -- Richard Branson
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. -- Ron Paul
[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month. -- Adam Carolla
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love. -- Dorothy Day
The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals. -- William Blum

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