
“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
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
Misattributed
“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
Incorrectly attributed to Foster, according to snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/attacking-the-rich/
Misattributed
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“You will never become rich, until you hate poverty”
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.”
Part I, Essay 18: The Sceptic
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
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.