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Wealth - Poverty| Return to Index | | Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
| | Albert Camus,
1913-1960, French Algerian,
Author and Philosopher |
| Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
| | Anaxagoras,
, Greek,
Philosopher |
| The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
| | Antiphanes,
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| The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
| | Antiphanes,
408 BC-334BC, Greek,
Writer |
| Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
| | Arthur Schopenhauer,
1788-1860, German,
Philosopher |
| Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
| | Barbara de Angelis,
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| He that is of the opiniorn money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
| | Benjamin Franklin,
1706-1790, American,
Scientist |
| Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.
| | Benjamin Franklin,
1706-1790, American,
Scientist |
| Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
| | Bryant H. McGill,
1969-, American,
Poet and Author |
| Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
| | Bryant H. McGill,
1969-, American,
Poet and Author |
| He plant trees to benefit another generation.
| | Caecilius Statius,
220-168 BCE, Roman,
Poet |
| One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
| | Cesare Pavese,
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| Subdue you appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.
| | Charles Dickens,
1812-1870, English,
Writer |
| Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
| | Cicero,
106-43 BCE, Roman,
Statesman and Philospher |
| He who will not economise will have to agonise
| | Confucius,
551-479 BCE, Chinese,
Philosopher |
| Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
| | D.H. Lawrence,
1885-1930, English,
Writer |
| That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
| | Denis Waitley,
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| What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have... .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.
| | Derrick Jensen,
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| There is no failure except in no longer trying.
| | Elbert Hubbard,
1856-1915, American,
Writer and Philosopher |
| Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
| | Erich Fromm,
1900-1980, Jewish German American,
Psychologist |
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