“The earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Philip Wollen (1950) Australian philanthropist
"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)
Remaking the world, The Speeches of Frank N.D. Buchman, Blandford Presss 1947, revised 1958, p. 46
Moral attitude
“The earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Philip Wollen (1950) Australian philanthropist
"Animals Should Be Off the Menu" (2012)
“Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”
Ernest Hemingway book Islands in the Stream
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 17
Islands in the Stream (1970)
“There is enough wealth in the world to satisfy everyone's needs, …”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
This quote is actually credited to an American pastor of Swiss origin Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Rearmament movement. Misquotes that Bapu is forced to wear http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-03/ahmedabad/30238203_1_bapu-tushar-gandhi-gandhiji. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) American pop artist
Source: 1960's, What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters' (1963), pp. 25-27
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
"Illustrations of the Logic of Science" First Paper — The Fixation of Belief", in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (November 1877)
Context: Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination and does not extend to that of other men.
We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences the last of all our faculties, for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.
“Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.”
William March book The Looking-Glass
The Looking-Glass (1943)
“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America