Authors:

Overconsumption Quotes

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hippocrates
Excess, Consumerism, Overconsumption
"Catholic Morality: Selected Sayings and Some Account of Various Religions". Book by E. Comyns Durnford, p. 90, 1915.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle
Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

Josemaria Escriva
Needs, Consumerism, Overconsumption

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Saint Augustine
Poverty, Consumerism, Overconsumption

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Mark Twain
Consumerism, Overconsumption, Supreme
Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.711, Library of America

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

Ludwig von Mises
Blessing, Overconsumption, Factors Of Production

And I encourage you all to go shopping more

George W. Bush
Shopping, Consumerism, Overconsumption
News Conference, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 2006.

You May Also Like: