The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the… — George Carlin 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
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you… — Winona LaDuke 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
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . .… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Conservatives insist that government should be "run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most… — Thomas Jefferson 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 immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a… — Arnold Newman 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
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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