Growth Quotes - page 69

Very often people do not seem to understand the difference between control and suppression of an emotion. Say, one has a strong desire to enjoy a certain thing but there is no possibility to fulfil that desire. Here the desire is suppressed. On the other hand a desire for a certain enjoyment comes. The man can easily fulfil that desire, but he knows that the desire is bad for his growth and he discriminates and decides not to have that low desire. Here, it is called control. Suppression is bad and to discriminate, decide and to control an emotion is very good and there is a great need for it in this so-called scientific age. (Swami Narayanananda)
It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. View quote
Emma Goldman
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual "lag" must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the "without" of man's nature subjugates the "within", dark storm clouds begin to form in the world. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Pollution is a direct outcome of man's ruthless exploitation of the earth's resources. Experience shows that the growth of successful organic populations is eventually balanced by the destruction of its own habitat. The vast man-made deserts show that the human population started this process long ago. View quote
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations - many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. View quote
Walt Whitman
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. (Walt Whitman)
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows The past the infinite greatness of the past For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past. View quote
Walt Whitman
An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation. View quote
Ivan Illich
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. View quote
Peter Drucker
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. View quote
Jonathan Haidt
King Piyadasi, honors both ascetics and the householders of all religions, and he honors them with gifts and honors of various kinds. But Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, does not value gifts and honors as much as he values this - that there should be growth in the essentials of all religions. View quote
Ashoka
All around us there are tangible evidences of the industrial activity of our people and the growth and development of our State, and with national legislation not unfavorable to us, the future of Oregon is full of promise of a rich inheritance to its inhabitants. View quote
William Paine Lord
Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development. View quote
Jeff Hawkins
Loving, hating, having expectations all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being. View quote
Laozi
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wars fought exclusively on foreign soil do have marginally higher real output growth than peacetime periods, but real growth during all other wars is sharply below peacetime levels. Evidence for foreign and domestic wars is consistent with monetarist, fiscalist, and mixed theories of wartime booms. View quote
Bryan Caplan
Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland. View quote
James Howard Kunstler