Built Quote by Alain de Botton

Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and…

— Barack Obama

Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind.

— Anonymous

“In attempting to uphold scarcity, toil, poverty and subjugation against the growing potential for post-scarcity, leisure, abundance and freedom, capitalism increasingly emerges as the…

— Murray Bookchin

A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men…

— C. Wright Mills

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged…

— John Berger

What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have…

— James C. Scott

People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and a political…

— Catherine Wilson

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort…

— Napoleon Hill

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more…

— Ronald Reagan

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

— John Ralston Saul