"The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Materialism Quotes #Endless Quotes #Consumerism Quotes

“Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.”
“She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.”
“I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.”
“We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.”
“The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.”
“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”

Source : Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.”

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