Avarice Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because…

— Ferenc Mate

In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would…

— Lewis Mumford

Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating…

— John Perry Barlow

I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings…

— Samuel B. Pettengill

“Clever, ambitious, and always in search of greater efficiency, we Americans have, in two short centuries, created a world of push button, round the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

— Sam Keen

“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…

— Wendell Berry

“The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised,…

— John Holloway

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

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

— Haruki Murakami

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them…

— Cole Arthur Riley