Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading
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Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.
God forbid that India should ever take to industr
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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.
The only reason a great many American families do
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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.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need,
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environm
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Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, work
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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-
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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.
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe
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After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.
You have succeeded in life when all you really wa
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can ge
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The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy
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Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop
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Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
The gap in our economy is between what we have an
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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.
There must be more to life than having everything
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There must be more to life than having everything!
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we cont
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, w
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
In the United States Christmas has become the rap
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In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough alu
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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.
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