Causes Quote by Emilio Pucci

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can…

— Ivan Illich

One of the many characteristics of the new is that, at first, it's very hard to recognize it for what it is. We're lucky…

— Junot Diaz

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of…

— Laila Lalami

Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard…

— Shakti Gawain

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the…

— Kehinde Wiley

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

— John Updike

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition…

— Hector Hugh Munro

There's a certain je ne sais quoi that Americans have in spades - a we-can-do-anything spirit that makes so many things possible for all…

— Marianne Williamson

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem…

— Lewis H. Lapham

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

— Gad Saad

I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what…

— Noam Chomsky

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

— Chamillionaire