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| Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, |
| Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~ William Ruckelshaus, |
| God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts. ~ Mahatma Gandhi |
| U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York’s World Trade Center every two weeks. ~ Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, |
| Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~ Author Unknown |
| Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~ Pam Shaw |
| You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. ~ Eric Hoffer |
| You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~ Vernon Howard |
| The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~ Mad Magazine |
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| Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends…. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~ John Berger |
| Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~ Channing E. Phillips |
| To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~ Elwyn Brooks White |
| I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. ~ Adriano Tilgher |
| There must be more to life than having everything! ~ Maurice Sendak |
| Mammon, n.: The god of the world’s leading religion. ~ Ambrose Bierce |
| Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. ~ From the movie |
| He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~ Author Unknown |
| Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~ Unknown |
| Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~ Edward Abbey |
| The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~ Kin Hubbard |
| In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~ Richard Bach |
| Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. ~ Adriano Tilgher |
| Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~ Robert Herrick |
| The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have – and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~ Paul Heyne |