Activity Quote by Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

— John Foster Dulles

Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor,…

— Tana French

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“And so, in the end, the question of markets is really a question about how we want to live together. Do we want a…

— Michael J. Sandel

We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend…

— Jean Vanier

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material…

— Jean Vanier

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in…

— Mother Teresa

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

— Cornel West

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

— Peter McWilliams

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry