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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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