Robert N. Anthony Quotes

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated for everything that you do.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.