Advantage Quote by Nicholas Hawksmoor

No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe and which…

— E. F. Schumacher

“We have seen that improved agents of destruction advance production by continually enlarging its outlets. The security of civilisation has been assured neither by…

— Gustave de Molinari

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

— Idries Shah

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in…

— John Maynard Keynes

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

— Jules Verne

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

— George Orwell

“The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the…

— Andrew Lang

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

— Calvin Coolidge

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a…

— John Milton

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth…

— Sophocles

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George