"The people starve because those above them..." - Quote by Lao Tzu

“Those who boast are not respected.”

“The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.”

“Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.”

“I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.”

“Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.”

“I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."”

“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”

“Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.”

“In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.”