Beggars

Famous quotes containing the word beggars:

“If alms were only given out of pity, all the beggars would have starved to death.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“But beggars should be utterly abolished! Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister at the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)