Poverty · Skopia

Songs

32

Johnny B. GoodeChuck Berry

Johnny B. Goode

1958★ 9.8

The MessageGrandmaster Flash

The Message

Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

1982★ 9.5

Lose Yourself

2002★ 9.1

C.R.E.A.M.

1994★ 8.9

No Woman, No Cry

Bob Marley and the Wailers

1974★ 8.9

Dear Mama

1995★ 8.5

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Quotes

27

Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist · 1837

★ 8.1

Essay · Sociology

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology · 1881

★ 4.3

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 4.0

Scripture · Religious literature

If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.

Matthew 19:21 · 60

★ 3.8

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Books

24

The Grapes of Wrath

1939★ 9.0

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1838★ 7.1

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

1859★ 7.0

Down and Out in Paris and London

1933★ 7.0

Independent People

Halldor Laxness

1934★ 7.0

A Modest Proposal

1729★ 7.0

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Movies

3

City Lights

Charlie Chaplin

1931★ 9.3

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

1948★ 9.1

Pather Panchali

1955★ 8.5