Thomas Paine Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Patriotic, People

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.547, Library of America

• We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  Thomas Paine

  Justice, Age, Extravagance

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.350, e-artnow

• The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Jesus, Church

• Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

  Thomas Paine

  Honor, Poverty, Bitterness

• Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

  Thomas Paine

  Loss, Evil, Inheritance

  Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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