Kenko Hoshi Quotes

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

If you work, you should not be poor.

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.