Overconsumption Quotes

119 quotes by 87 authors

The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the… — Winona LaDuke
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied… — Hu Shih
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not… — Jim Wallis
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never… — William Gurnall
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture… — Joe Bageant
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. — Walter Weyl
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing… — Barbara Kingsolver
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary… — Wendell Berry
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants. — E. Stanley Jones
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. — Aesop
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but… — Rick Warren
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are… — Dorothy Day
So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's… — Will Rogers
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we… — Will Rogers
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. — John Ruskin
The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. — Andrew Carnegie
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return… — Henry David Thoreau

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