Accumulation Quote by Gary Snyder

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten…

— Thomas Huxley

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress…

— Graham Swift

THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check…

— Thomas Malthus

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind

— Tennessee Williams

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is…

— Oscar Wilde

“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence - the…

— Eben Alexander

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite…

— Rudolf Christoph Eucken

“Should continual economic growth be the predominant model, the highest purpose of human civilization? Continual growth is one characteristic of cancer that eventually destroys…

— Alex Gerber Jr