Making mistakes Quote by Travis Long

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind…

— Esther Dyson

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and…

— Orison Swett Marden

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and…

— Cornel West

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most…

— Kate Elliott

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

— Fred Schneider

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment.…

— Hjalmar Söderberg

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are…

— Rosellen Brown

There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

— Victor Hugo