Working Poverty Rates

Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:

    “That book is good
    Which puts me in a working mood.
    Unless to Thought be added Will
    Apollo is an imbecile.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilisation.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)