"Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth."

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Source : "The Marriage of Love & Power". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking Quotes #Important Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.”

Source : "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History". Book by Howard Bloom, 1997.
“Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.”
“When you're creative and you're going for the top, nothing really matters.”
“Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.”
“If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.”
“The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.”
“If you build - if you spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build a wall over, let's say, a mountain, if you build a 10-foot wall over a 10,000-foot mountain, and someone is determined to climb the 10,000-foot mountain, they're not going to be deterred by the 10-foot wall. It's a matter of common sense.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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