The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: extremism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win. —Andrew Kopkind More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never eat more than you can lift. —Miss Piggy More about this quote Tags: strength food eating gluttony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: happiness wealth contentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am immensely and continuously conscious of a world of nuclear bombs, of vast hunger, of curable injustice, of a meretricious press and cheap-jack television, of perilous and apparently endless international division, of unreasonable cruelty and suffering for which almost nobody cares, and of my own silly efforts to make money to provide me with irrelevant comforts or necessities like drink and to ensure some measure of security for my family. And I know that it is not the answer, because there is truthfully only one answer, which is absolute pacifism and absolute communism — not in the dreary, dogmatic party-political sense, but in the sense that my father would have called religious: the sense of mortal community. Not only do I know it; I knew it all along. —James Cameron More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich. —Jean Craighead George More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: power money preference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need. —Charan Singh More about this quote Tags: simplicity poverty want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: happiness want deprivation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect. —Gail Sheehy More about this quote Tags: enough wealth self-respect goodness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses us in the sepulchre. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man? —Saint Ambrose More about this quote Tags: poor death nature wealth earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. —Frank Lloyd Wright More about this quote Tags: people wealth possessions control object Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What does a man need — really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in, and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all — in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, and preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. —Sterling Hayden More about this quote Tags: accomplishment work food payment activity shelter mortgage gadgets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: humanity success money mankind cars charity service definitions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. —Margaret Visser More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email