Accumulation Quote by Leon Logothetis

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to…

— Jacques Ellul

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

— Vandana Shiva

“Our culture tells us to want sex, pleasure, and instant gratification. Every hit song raves about it. Consumerism tells us that we need it…

— Michael J Heil

It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices.…

— Billie Jean King

“In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more:…

— Esther Perel

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the…

— Pope John Paul II

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence…

— Samuel Johnson

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message…

— Ellen Willis

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 you own a lot of rubbish, it's tough to simplify your life.”

— Leon Logothetis

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

— Albert Einstein

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison