Money Quote by Amy Dacyczyn

“So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence. It is…

— Amy Dacyczyn

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly…

— Owen D. Young

“To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

— Immanuel Kant

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

— Theodore T. Munger

“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the more poetic.…

— G.K. Chesterton

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a…

— Neville Chamberlain

“Philanthropy is not about money...its about feeling the pain of others and caring enough about their needs to help.”

— Timothy Pina

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making…

— Marvin J. Ashton