Holbrook Jackson Quotes

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

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

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

The hand that receives is always lower than the hand that gives.

With every step of our progress in that direction, social inequality tends to increase. The skillful speculator realizes a fortune by the same operation that ruins hundreds around him, and adds to his fortune by buying their property under the hammer of the sheriff. The wealthy manufacturer is unmoved by revulsions in the British market which sweep away his competitors, and, when the storm blows over, he is enabled to double, treble, or quadruple, his already overgrown fortune... The system tends to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

I hate the idea of people nicking my stuff, but in all honesty, I'm pretty well off. If a genuinely desperate man on his last gasp nicks my coat from the pub on a freezing night, well, he's welcome to it. It'll change his life. Mine's only inconvenienced by having to buy another one.

If we all did as Jesus did when he helped the poor, we wouldn't need the government.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.