Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking]…

— Benjamin Franklin

Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all…

— Sam Keen

The soul lives forever by giving, not receiving. This is the grand paradox. You get most by giving most. Conversely, by receiving much you…

— Julian Johnson

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

— Henry Hazlitt

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain…

— Christoph Waltz

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

— Aubrey de Grey

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to…

— Carolyn Hax

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

— Albert Einstein

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

— Robert Kuttner

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come…

— Will Eisner

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

— Ellen Goodman