Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescenc
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
If living conditions don't stop improving in this
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If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
All of the biggest technological inventions creat
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All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
We have produced a world of contented bodies and
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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of h
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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the
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It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity '
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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
In its broadest ecological context, economic deve
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In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the ric
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents whi
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of coo
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed p
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curative
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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
It is an ironic fact that while half the world's
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It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.
So long as all the increased wealth which modern
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Men can bear all things except good days.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for t
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Human prosperity never rests but always craves mo
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, Let no more riches enter!
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