Quotes by Berger, John

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operat >>

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. W >>

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form >>

Quotations about Poverty and The Poor

Remember the poor, it costs nothing. >>

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. >>

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a gr >>

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John