Jane Goodall Quotes

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of s**t that I don't need, that I refuse to share with others.

The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel everyone else in the accumulation of goods.

I buy whatever I need and want for myself.

If you take the MY out of money, you're left with ONE.

I hate to say it - it breaks my heart - but we're a tacky, money-obsessed culture.

Our societies have achieved a general level of prosperity of which most of all the human beings who have ever lived could only dream. Now we need to show that we can stop continually wanting more - more money, more stuff. We must show that it is possible for people to realise that they have enough.

In the 70s Sweden was innocent, but we've lost that. Society has become less idealistic and everything is about how much money you have in your wallet.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.