"The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions."

-- Saul

#Spiritual Quotes #Decay Quotes #Materialism Quotes

“My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.”
“Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.”
“I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.”
“We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.”
“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.68, Oxford University Press, USA
“What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.”
“Youve just got to go with what you have in your pants.”
“John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”

Source : John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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