"The worst enslaving trait of all is greed.……" — Gerry Spence
"The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise."
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38 Quotes by Gerry Spence
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others,…
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
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Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve…
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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such…
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The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The…
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the…
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I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out…
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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be…
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We are defined by how we use our power.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
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