You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. – Vernon Howard
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
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – Francis H. Bradley
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. – Paul Eldridge
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. – Author Unknown
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
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 best things in life arent things. – Art Buchwald
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. – Thomas Carlyle
There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair. – Frank A. Clark
It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. – Robert A. Cook
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Guy Debord
Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership. – E. M. Forster
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. – Mahatma Gandhi
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. – Johann von Goethe
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith
