“Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“When you have been a victim of constant hunger, you learn how to stop wasting food.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous things in life are overeating and the lack of ambition.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, there are a lot of smartphones, mainly owned by not-so-smart people.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“Good order and convenience are not expensive; but haphazard and ill-considered projects invariably result in extravagance and wastefulness.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Eating a piece of meat, at its most efficient, we could say is like throwing away six times that amount of food… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise,… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is… — Donald S. Whitney Copy Share Image
Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“in Japan, buying a lot of stuff for your children is considered indulgent. Wastefulness was frowned upon. Shopping bags should be saved… — Christine Gross-Loh Copy Share Image
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se , but rather the… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image