Community Quote by David Hume

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy,…

— Pope Francis

“Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom, happiness, and abundance in owning less. And”

— Joshua Becker

“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

— Dan Simmons

“Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

— George D. Prentice

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and…

— P. T. Barnum

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the…

— Marquis de Sade

“Care for the needy requires the expenditure of wealth: when all share alike, disbursing their possessions among themselves, they each receive a small portion…

— Basil the Great

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most…

— Felix Adler

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai