"I have no taste for either poverty..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
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“The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.”
“For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.”
“We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.”