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The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

Charles Perrault

Thought

Brothers

Poor

Wrong

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Evita Peron

Charity

Poor

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

Ideas

Poor

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?