11 Quotes Tagged: more

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."
"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."
"Nobody asked your opinion," said Alice.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for a healthy society was equal distribution of goods - which I suspect is impossible under capitalism. For, when everyone's entitled to get as much for himself as he can, all available property, however much there is of it, is bound to fall into the hands of a small minority, which means that everyone else is poor.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it — and have it repeated to us — over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person...

If less was more, she had a great deal.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.