“Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.”

— Louis-ferdinand Céline, book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

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French writer 1894–1961

Rick Cook (1944) American writer

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“The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.”

Charles Fort (1874–1932) American writer

Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 2 at resologist.net

“His explanation for the "signs"
I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say "I'm Stupid". That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.”

Bill Engvall (1957) American comedian and actor

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“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

“Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.”

Lewis H. Lapham (1935) American journalist

Preamble, p. 8
Money And Class In America (1989)

“See, they say, how they love one another, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to death.”
Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligant; ipsi enim invicem oderunt: et ut pro alterutro mori sint parati; ipsi enim ad occidendum alterutrum paratiores erunt.

Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian

Source: Apologeticus pro Christianis, Chapter 39, describing how Christianity is mocked by its enemies.

“My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike ever to mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way. Anything that assimilates with one explanation, must have assimilable relations, to some degree, with all other explanations, if all explanations are somewhere continuous.”

Charles Fort (1874–1932) American writer

Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 11 at resologist.net Ch. 11 at sacred-texts.com http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damn/damn11.htm

“Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”

Muhammad Yunus (1940) Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

"Eliminating Poverty Through Market-Based Social Entrepreneurship" in Global Urban Development Magazine (May 2005) http://www.globalurban.org/Issue1PIMag05/Yunus%20article.htm

“My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.”

Oliver Stone (1946) American film director, screenwriter, and producer

The Observer (paragraph 20) http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/18/oliver-stone-chavez-wall-street.

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