“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”
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Sad Quotes — page 62 of 475
“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man”
“When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.”
“And when Elvis was unhappy, believe me, everyone was unhappy.”
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
“When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.”
“We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.”
“There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.”
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.”
“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most”
“Everyone's been on the "hip-hop is dead" campaign for years, and now it's the most unsure-of-itself genre ever.”
“Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for”
“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
“Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.”
“No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.”
“Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.”
“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”
“In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.”
“Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.”