Thomas Paine
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Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and…
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68 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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God made no one rich or poor and gave all people the earth as their inheritance (opens korrents.com)
“It is wrong to say that God made Rich and Poor; he made only Male and Female; and he gave them the earth for their inheritance.”
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Poverty is created by civilized life and does not exist in the natural state (opens korrents.com)
“Poverty, therefore, is a thing created by that which is called civilized life. It exists not in the natural state.”
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Civilization has made some people richer and others poorer than they would be in a natural state (opens korrents.com)
“Civilization, therefore, or that which is so called, has operated, two ways, to make one part of society more affluent, and the other part more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.”
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God made no one rich or poor and gave all people the earth as their inheritance (opens korrents.com)