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.
2010
Grameen Bank II: Designed to Open New Possibilities (2002)
(1847)
Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/learning/video-secret-billionaire-chuck-feeney-story
“Poor people always lose in struggles.”
A sentence from his first edition of Ptolemy's Geography (1535)
“English: "There will always be the poor among you."”
"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.
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“"Poor humans; they will all die."
"Poor us; we will not."”
Prologue (p. 2).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
“The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Purity of heart will not make us poor.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" (1992), Ch. 7 : Work, §9 : Sales to Service
Context: Purity of heart will not make us poor. The exaltation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority, that worldly success is a natural result.
Give all your gifts away in service to the world. If you want to paint, don’t wait for a grant. Paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting. You never know who’s going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.
