Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762 Category: Prosperity
Pearls around the neck – stones upon the heart. – Hanan J. Ayalti, Yiddish Proverbs, 1949 Category: Prosperity
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright Category: Prosperity
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence — those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. – Aldous Huxley, Island Category: Prosperity
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle Category: Time
