"Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it."
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"In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed."
"Moments are the elements of profit"
"There are too few rich and too few profits."
"Man cannot live by profit alone."
"There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit."
"Honour without profit is a ring on the finger."
"Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]"
"No profit to honour, no honour to Religion."
"You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at least large parts of market systems."
"Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education."
"Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance."
"There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades."
"The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully."