Abundance Quote by Charles Eisenstein

“We are asked to orient our “strategies” and “tactics” around poverty and material immiseration at a time when revolutionary sentiment is being generated by…

— Murray Bookchin

“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

“Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we are. It's…

— Sean Gibson

“We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”

— William Gibson

“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which…

— Emmanuel Lévinas

“I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a…

— Bill Moyes

“Escape is a commodity like anything else”

— Iain M. Banks

“Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. And if it isn't, it isn't. There's no living…

— Hanif Kureishi

“An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world,…

— E. F. Schumacher

“The world is a glorious bounty. There is more food than can be eaten if we would limit our numbers to those who can…

— Ian L. McHarg

We must get out of materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda