Attitude Quote by Alice James

“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just as the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury" by religious…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear…

— Joseph Addison

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

— Andre Leon Talley

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

— Karl Marx

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you…

— Paul Theroux

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

— Antoine Arnault

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

— Socrates

“In short, the five or seven hours a day which each will have at his disposal, after having consecrated several hours to the production…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

“luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”

— John Calvin