Civilization Quote by Max Lerner

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create…

— Marva Dawn

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

— Dan Davis

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

— Charles Caldwell Ryrie

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

— David Hume

When your creative expressions match the needs of you fellow humans, then wealth will spontaneously manifest.

— Deepak Chopra

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend…

— Jimmy Carter

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

— Saul Williams

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals…

— Guillermo del Toro