Poor Law System

Famous quotes containing the words poor, law and/or system:

    “Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.

    “Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.”
    —Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)