While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things - new experiences, new… — John Banville Copy Share Image
This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort. — Greg Roberts Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images,… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
