#poor

We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure – to experience the world as a dynamic presence – as a changeable, interactive thing? If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality. And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something enormous and needless. This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges. I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia. I can’t be Picasso. I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly. I can wash dishes. ↗

— Rachel Corrie

#hate #justice #love-care #peace #planet

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#war #poor

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#rich #sea #vision

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another. ↗

— Madonna

#masdonna #mercy #poor

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#happiness #marilyn-monroe #my-story #poor

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#rich #taxation #poor

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it. ↗

— Michael Grant

#poor

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#carroll #memory #poor

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#i #ours #planet #poor #really