"Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils."

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Source : Nathanael Emmons (1860). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.195

Nathanael Emmons

#Roots Quotes #Evil Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Some mortals--like you--are already half in love with death. It is who you are, and I'll not make it harder on you by telling you things you don't need to know. Ask me again when you die. Then I'll tell you everything, anything, nothing.”
“Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.”
“The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.”
“The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.”
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

Source : "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.
“The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.”

Source : "Democrats Want Hardworking Americans to Pay for Everything! Now, the Internet?", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism.”

Source : Seymour Melman (2001). “After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy”, Knopf
“I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.”

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