Beautiful Quote by Thorstein Veblen

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

— Shana Alexander

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against…

— Albert Camus

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women…

— Theodore Parker

“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost…

— John Steinbeck

“My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”

— Enock Maregesi

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being…

— Peter Robinson

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”

— Enock Maregesi

“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on pointless items…

— Helen Fielding

“Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

For me, everything is about Jesus and Father and the Holy Spirit, and relationships, and life is an adventure of faith lived one day…

— William P. Young

“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.”

— Enock Maregesi

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began…

— Vance Packard