Poor Living Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words poor, living and/or conditions:

“Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.”
—Sojourner Truth (c. 1777–1883)

“I had been living in Berlin since 1922, thus synchronously with the young man of the book; but neither this fact, nor my sharing some of his interests, such as literature and lepidoptera, should make one say “aha” and identify the designer with the design.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)