“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”
Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.”
Though she is quoted as saying this in a 1996 interview, she is quoted as saying it is a maxim which she follows as a Christian Scientist, and it seems to come from words of a Christian Science Hymn. It does come from Hymn 249 in the Christian Science Hymnal
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American actress, singer, and animal rights activist 1922–2019Related quotes
Jodie Foster (1962) American actor, film director and producer
Incorrectly attributed to Foster, according to snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/attacking-the-rich/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.”
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938)
“You will never become rich, until you hate poverty”
Mike Murdock (1946) American televangelist
Variant: You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
David Hume book Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Part I, Essay 18: The Sceptic
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: In many myths, the one possibility the gods are most anxious about is that humans will discover some secret of immortality or even... attempt to stride the high heavens.... It's a little bit like the rich imposing poverty on the poor and then asking to be loved because of it.
