“The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.” LongSpiritOrderFeltWealthEconomyEffectsProduceLaborRichesInequalityCommerceModerationConvenienceMischiefFrugalityTranquillity Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.” SpiritOrderForceProduceRevolutionInequalityQuintessential Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.” IfsMenWorldWayWantNeedsLongEnoughUseBodyWould BeMy OwnDyingThis WorldProduceInequalityThievesDay To DayStarvation Author:Mahatma Gandhi