“Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.” WayHeartBookIdeasSoulSpiritHealingTeachTeachingBenefitsDeedsSpreadInvisibleRuinsPenetrateHeart And SoulPoisonousInhaleVapor Author:Peter Prange
“If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.” PeopleIfsLooksPurposeInterestParticularBenefitsArmySpreadSelfishCirclesCorporationsSoleHookRepresentingTreasuryPlunderCrooksSelfish Interest Author:Charley Reese
“The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.” PeopleKnowsDoeJobsBenefitsUnionsWorkersSpreadHarmInvisibleVisibleProtectedTariffs Author:Milton Friedman
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.” IfsMenHeartFeelingsLightInterestWhiteFireOughtThousandBenefitsJudgmentRateSpreadEvery ManWelfareHeatThings To DoWarmthCouncilThrustHastyPersonal InterestPersonal Feelings Author:Woodrow Wilson
“The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.” MenWantLongAnswersConditionsHe ManMaterialsMoralityBenefitsHighestPhilosopherObviousSpreadImprovementBotherFulfillmentThrownJustifyConsumerismExpansionRequirementsScrapOverconsumptionGutters Author:Lewis Mumford
“Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.” KindShowsKidsGrowing UpGrowingFansTvsBenefitsNewsCharitySpreadTv ShowsTeenage Author:Gregg Sulkin
“The benefits and $174,000 per year salary that we get, we earn. It's not elaborate, it's just a bunch of poppycock that a lot of people have spread around trying to get us to hate our own government and our government representatives.” PeopleTryingYearsGovernmentHateBenefitsSpreadBunchRepresentativesSalary Author:Hank Johnson
“Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.” ShouldFirstsWellsPoliticalFoundBeliefProgressEconomicBlessingBenefitsFoundationStriveBoundsSpreadPursuitVainLiberalismBureaucracy Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.” GivingHeartPersonsIdeasDesireCan DoSimplePlanetsBenefitsMessagesDeedsSpreadGood DeedsSimple IdeasKind Deeds Author:Shari Arison
“So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.” PeopleGivingFormGuyShareMediaBenefitsToolsSpreadControlled Author:Seth Godin
“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” PeopleRealPoliticsLibertyDemocracyBenefitsSpreadDestroyersDonationBounty Author:Plutarch
“Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him.” IfsKnowsGivingStatesEnoughTreeFeetBenefitsCreatorSpreadIgnorantThanksHeightBranchesOwners Book:The Confessions Source: The Confessions