The Poor Law Quotes
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
— Anatole France
The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light. — Gabrielle Zevin
Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly.
— Anthony Trollope
Without plenty, the wealthy lack compassion for the poor, hoarding without sharing. Without law, the strong bully the weak, stealing by force.
— Jacqueline Carey
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law
— Oliver Goldsmith
If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.
— Stephen Richards
Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.
— Robin Sacredfire
The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.
— Anatole France
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.
— William Shakespeare
You don't always need friends. Sometimes it's enough to have a witness.
— Thom Mark Shepard
The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead ...
— Walter Mosley
The law's a necessary evilwe canna be doing without it
but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience? — Diana Gabaldon
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
— Margaret Deland
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
— Robert Kennedy
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
— Anatole France
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
— Abraham Lincoln
It's only the poor who can't get away with murder.
— Marty Rubin
The law, in its majestic impartiality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under the bridges of Paris.
— Anatole France
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
— Samantha Power
She'd say amazing things sometimes. "Once you're alive," she'd say, "you cant ever be dead.
— Tim O'Brien
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
— Andrew Jackson
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