Overconsumption Quotes

119 quotes by 87 authors

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough. — Joy Davidman
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.' — C.S. Lewis
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. — Thomas Carlyle
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.… — Dorothy Day
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by… — Robert Neelly Bellah
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be… — Wendell Berry
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of… — Brennan Manning
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal.… — Brennan Manning
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a… — John Silber
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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