Addiction Quote by Cornel West

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the…

— Martin Seligman

It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food…

— Ron Loewinsohn

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation.…

— Mark Twain

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some…

— Mike Ditka

So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine…

— Lee Strobel

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual…

— Cornel West

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up…

— Donella Meadows

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves.…

— Charles Horton Cooley

One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to…

— Philip Slater

People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

— Sam Shepard