#2,839

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,778

An intelligent touch can make the austerity imposed by poverty culminate in the perfection of taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#1,028

Wealth makes life easier; poverty, rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#893

The worst demagogues are not recruited from among the poor and envious, but from among the wealthy and ashamed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 163

#727

The poor really only hate stupid wealth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 132

#719

Love of poverty is Christian, but adulation of the poor is a mere electioneering tactic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 131

#486

Under the pretext of giving work to the hungry, the progressive sells the useless artifacts he produces.
The poor are industrialism’s pretext for enriching the rich man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 95

#485

To industrialize a country, it is not enough to expropriate the rich man; it is necessary to exploit the poor man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 95

#459

The poor man does not envy the rich man for the opportunities for noble behavior which wealth facilitates, but rather for the degradations which wealth makes possible.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 91

#442

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 88

#365

The poor man’s patience in modern society is not virtue but cowardice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 76

#103

Poverty is the only barrier to the throng of vulgarities that whinny inside souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 39

#40

More surely than an accursed wealth there is an accursed poverty: that of the man who suffers not from being poor but from not being rich; that of the man who complacently tolerates every misfortune shared by someone else; that of the man who desires not to abolish poverty, but to abolish the good he covets.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 30