Quote by Edward Abbey
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey

Other quotes by Edward Abbey

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! – Edward Abbey

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Flowers
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Society is like a stew. If you dont stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey

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Society
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. – Edward Abbey

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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

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It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. – Robert A. Cook

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Consumerism

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

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Consumerism

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

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