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Overconsumption Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as…
- 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…
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- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau
- But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas
- How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson
- We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price
- We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh