A Quote by John F. Kennedy

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy
American - President
May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Wendy Beckett

It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Woodrow Wilson

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

James L. Petigru

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Ron Paul

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

Penny Lernoux

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes, give to the privileged elites of another country. As someone once said: foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich country give money to the rich people of a poor country.

Michael Parenti

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Zong Qinghou

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

John O'Hara

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

Robert Kiyosaki

I can't afford to have resentment. I can't afford to be angry. I can't afford these things spiritually or physically.

Bill Ward

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Ben Stein

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.