“And can you, then, who have got such possessions and so many of them, covet our poor huts?”

“Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, we make of our possessions a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.”

Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church

“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.”

Charles Reade book Christie Johnstone

“The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.”

Lionel Messi (1987) Argentine association football player

“You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure.
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.
And there's a mighty Judgement coming
but I may be wrong…”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher

“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.”

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) American novelist, short story writer and poet

“Who are you calling?" (claire)
Pizza hut" (shane)
Loser" (claire)”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer