"Siempre habrá pobres entre ustedes."
Biblical reference.
Attributed
“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
Martial book Epigrammata
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“To be a lion among sheep, 'tis poor.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
É fraqueza entre ovelhas ser leão.
Stanza 68, line 8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I
Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States
Source: A People's History of the United States
“The poor will always be with us.”
Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
Quoted in "Bible bashing the homeless, Abbott style "in response to whether a government under his direction would continue with the Rudd government's goal of halving homelessness by 2020" http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/bible-bashing-the-homeless-abbott-style-20100215-o2tj.html?comments=105 in the Brisbane Times, June 30, 2010. <br class="br">2010
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher
(1847)
Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot
Variant: Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym…
Source: 'Salem's Lot
