He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself. — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air,… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so… — Fred Small Copy Share Image
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.'… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough. — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
