Community Quote by Dan Simmons

“waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society”

— Haruki Murakami

“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.”

— Anonymous

“A society that has destroyed freedom and beauty must itself be destroyed.”

— Bryant McGill

“A society is defined not only by what it creates but also by what it refuses to destroy. ”

— Anonymous

“A selfish living is a wasteful living”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.”

— Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin

“We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We are highly susceptible to self destruction when we aren’t doing what we really want with our lives.”

— James Dillehay

“In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.”

— Amen Muffler

“People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.”

— Joyce Meyer

“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”

— Stefan Merrill Block