Nature of man Quote by Mo Yan

“Prosperity and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying”

— Mo Yan

“Only when we get sufficiently rich can we afford the relative luxury of caring about the environment.”

— Bjorn Lomborg

“raises the possibility that the immense improvement in material conditions over the last two centuries was offset by the collapse of the family and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.”

— Rachel Hauck

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

— David W. Orr

“Many of us imagine carrying out dramatic changes in impoverished places, but few have the patience for the small, time-consuming, and seemingly endless details…

— Deni Y. Bechard

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain…

— Eugene Linden

“Every day, people settle for less than they desearve. They are only parially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being…

— Bo Bennett

“Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at…

— Emil Cioran

“Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving…

— Robert Frank