Community Quote by Walter Weyl

Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food…

— Charles Spurgeon

“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society has given…

— Stuart Chase

We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale...…

— Walter Weyl

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or…

— Saint Augustine

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

— Matthew Arnold

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your…

— Saint Augustine

It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air, water and…

— Klaus Topfer

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

— Will Rogers

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

— Michel de Montaigne

Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh