America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind… — Ruth Harrison Copy Share Image
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
32 grams raw, chop it in half, get 16. Double it times three, we got 48. Which mean a whole lot of… — Foxy Brown Copy Share Image
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not,… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way… — Abu Bakar Bashir Copy Share Image
It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it… — Daniel Bernoulli Copy Share Image
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It must operate at a profit. You can't have any structure, especially not a long-term one, that does not have under it… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where… — Anant Agarwal Copy Share Image
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just… — Enele Sopoaga Copy Share Image
The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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