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
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- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
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- A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts – the poor or the rich! – Sandeep Sahajpal
- Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. – Ronald Rolheiser
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