A Quote by Catherine Wilson

If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.

Catherine Wilson

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Catherine Wilson
1822 - October 20, 1862

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.

Pete Townshend

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Simone de Beauvoir

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

Paul Johnson

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

Kay Cannon

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

Gerald M. Loeb

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Eckhart Tolle

So much comedy comes out of an earnest, deeply rooted need for one thing or another, trying to get it and caring so much that you lose your sense of self-awareness.

Jeremy Sisto

I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

Elaine Morgan

I lead Labor - Labor is the party that founded the state of Israel; it's deeply rooted in Israeli society.

Isaac Herzog

We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Les Brown

The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.

Pope Francis

To move freely you must be deeply rooted.

Bella Lewitzky

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.