Glad Quote by Herodotus

“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been…

— Victor Hugo

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were…

— Charles Dickens

During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the market around…

— Rutger Bregman

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

— Ted Malloch

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Business!”cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all,…

— Charles Dickens

“One goes to the market to participate in the world. As with all things that concern the world, being in the market requires caution.…

— Teju Cole

“How could they do this? How could anyone sell another human being? How could anyone buy another human being? I was disgusted.”

— Susan McKenzie

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be…

— George Cadbury

“Neither of these men cared remotely about “maximizing profit” in the short-term in the way a modern business person in a city would; they…

— James Rebanks