Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258
“Well governed, poverty, ill governed, wealth a disgrace.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Ethics of Confucius https://books.google.ca/books?id=dYfFFik3e0YC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Cosimo Inc, 2005, p. 318 of Index under "People, the Nourishment of".<br>:Variation: To be wealthy in an unjust society is a disgrace. <br class="br">Attributed
“Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
Flora Thompson book Lark Rise
Source: Lark Rise, ch. 1, Poor People's Houses
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
October 24, 1945
1940s–present, The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989)
George Mason (1725–1792) American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
June 17
Addresses to the Virginia Ratifying Convention (1788)
George Horne (1730–1792) English churchman, writer and university administrator
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne, 1809, p. 310
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto III, lines 34–36 (tr. John D. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Context: The soldiers who are accused of committing these atrocities are, of course, responsible for their own actions and if found guilty, must be severely and appropriately punished. But they are not the ones primarily responsible for the disgrace that has been brought upon the United States of America.
Private Lynndie England did not make the decision that the United States would not observe the Geneva Convention. Specialist Charles Graner was not the one who approved a policy of establishing an American Gulag of dark rooms with naked prisoners to be "stressed" and even — we must use the word — tortured — to force them to say things that legal procedures might not induce them to say.
These policies were designed and insisted upon by the Bush White House.
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
PENN Address (2004)
Context: It's not everywhere in fashion these days, Americanism. Not very big in Europe, truth be told. No less on Ivy League college campuses. But it all depends on your definition of Americanism.
Me, I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan of America, I'm one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that...
I'm that kind of fan. I read the Declaration of Independence and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude. As I said yesterday I made my pilgrimage to Independence Hall, and I love America because America is not just a country, it's an idea.
