Common sense Quote by William Morris

“waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society”

— Haruki Murakami

“We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue.”

— Haruki Murakami

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

— Karl Kraus

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both…

— Anonymous

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

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

— William Ralph Inge

“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and…

— Martin Yate

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

— F. R. Scott

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff…

— Annie Leonard

“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and accumulation constitute…

— Murray Bookchin