Showing posts with label poor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poor. Show all posts

Friday, May 06, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-06


"Terrorism … is a war of the poor against the rich. War is terrorism of the rich against the poor."

Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) Achtung! Vorurteile (2003)

The World Trade Center, the morning of September 12, 2001. Photograph by Jim MacMillan

Monday, March 07, 2016

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-07


"In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) "The Waverley Novels," The National Review, April 1858

The Uprising by Honoré Daumier (1860)