Poor Law System

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

“Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system ... which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)