Pastoral Resources

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.