Allowance Quote by Gail Carriger

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they…

— B. F. Skinner

“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given…

— Stuart Chase

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less…

— Benjamin Franklin

“They founded a society based not upon currency and commodities but on the elementary notion that if you failed to raise enough to eat,…

— Shirley Abbott

In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in…

— Wes Streeting

“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone…

— Mary DeTurris Poust

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be…

— Arthur Compton

Everyone has needs, but Food for the Hungry is something that people can grasp onto as a practical way to step outside of themselves,…

— Marc Martel

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Social progress: for the same price as last year, I get a slimmer candy bar, less chips per bag, and I have to walk…

— Jarod Kintz

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack…

— Charles Eisenstein

“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.”

— Barry Schwartz