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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
Explore more quotes by H. L. Mencken
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
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