"The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power."

-- Davis McCaughey

#Leadership Quotes #Men Quotes #Greed Quotes

“For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.”
“Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.”
“Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.”
“Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.”
“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”

Source : Dorothy West (2010). “The Richer, the Poorer”, p.77, Anchor
“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86
“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”
“We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.”

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