It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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- Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. – Matthew Henry
- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point. – Auliq Ice
- Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. – Pericles
- Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. – Thaddeus of Vitovnica
- The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you. – Lindsey Rietzsch
- Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
- It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST! – Stan Jacobs
- Humans don’t have any type of interest… HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN THEM. – Deyth Banger
- If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The rich are poor without the poor’s acknowledgment of money. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.* – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty. – Patience Johnson
- The greatest poverty is the poverty of the mind. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Poverty is a curse. Don’t call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty. – Nazmul Ahmed Noyon
- The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision. – Onyi Anyado
- A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
- Material poverty doesn’t causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does. – Derric Yuh Ndim
- Poverty without a people’s government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. – Holly Near
- If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations. – QM Sidd
- The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. – David Berliner
- We won’t let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We’ll kill poverty through education. – Sharad Vivek Sagar
- To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty. – MF Moonzajer
- Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money. – Barbara Ehrenreich
- We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won – Ronald Reagan
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