Pastoral Resources

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.