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“I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.”

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Author:Charles Koch

“When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?”

Asks Wonder Society Conditions Events Profit

Author:Richard Mitchell

“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.”

Social Secret Our Lives Society Stage Flower Summer Spring Fruit Profit Autumn Alchemy

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.”

Country Happiness Economy Society Profit Prosperity Happy

Book:The Works of David Ricardo ...

Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...

“Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.”

Men May Ends Use Individual Knowledge Society Achieve Particular Civilization Members Profit Pursue Civilized Civilized Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.”

Men Long Doors Society Civilization Taste Laughter Mouths Sick Wine Property Profit Riches Delusion Bitterness Fence

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”

Children Work Society Objects Train Profit Employers Profitable Getting High Employing

Book:Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South

Source: Lewis Hine: photographs of child labor in the new South

“[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.”

Men Growth Rooms Virtue Society He Man Computer Tests Universal Profit Business Success Communion Committees Benches Priesthood

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem