This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The cause of profit is that labor produces more than is required for its support.
It is better to profit by a horrible example than to be one.
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
The state is the sum of all the negations of the individual liberty of all its members; or rather that of the sacrifices which all its members make, in renouncing one portion of their liberty to the profit of the common good.
Good | Individual | Liberty |
Noah Porter, fully Noah Porter, Jr.
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Nelson Mandela, fully Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.
Action | Harm | Organization | Reality | Struggle |
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
In revolutions there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Will |
Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci NULL
To put off pressure upon the destitute for the sake of gain and to make a profit out of the need of another is condemned by all laws, human or divine.
Need |
‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
Books | Good | Heart | Mind | Passion | Sensibility | Thought | Thought |
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Morality |
There are many things, the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.