Quotes for All
Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A … Read more
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern … Read more
We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption – anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see … Read more
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners Barbara Kingsolver
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. Arianna Huffington
The most difficult thing is the decision to act! Amelia Earhart
The students [of the 60’s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents’ conspicuous consumption. Allan Bloom