Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Seneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
Rand Paul
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
Irwin Redlener
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Saint Patrick
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker
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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.
Dennis Prager
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
Will Durant
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The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson
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I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!
Allison Janney
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Seneca the Younger
