Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry."
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Hoarding
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Author, Poet, Essayist
"Owning is owing, having is hoarding."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others."
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"The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life."
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"I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter."
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