How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
How would ye bear to draw your latest breath
Where all that’s wretched paves the way for death?
By Kenkō Hoshi
(Japanese Buddhist priest of the Fourteenth Century)
It is desirable for a ruler that no man should suffer from cold and hunger under his rule. Man cannot maintain his standard of morals when he has no ordinary means of living.
The Bread of Affliction
(From “Children of the Ghetto”)