The Moken people of Burma and Thailand have no word for want - Sunday Times, 20/11/05
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion any more. It's stuff - Emma Thompson, Time, 23/01/06
People should reduce the amount of ?things? accumulated in their dwellings in order to be closer to themselves, to the important result of millions of years of evolution they are. The ?thinginizing? of humanity leads to its disarray. It might even lead to the end of the human species - Robert Muller
Our despair ? at the conformity of the Topshop/Tesco/one-size-fits-all society, at our disillusionment with the Gucci fallacy (that endless luxury and glamour bring happiness) - Colin McDowell, ST Style, 01/10/06
Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere natit (We are just statistics born to consume resources) - Horace
Man's rich in proportion to the number of things we can do without - Thoreau
Look how many things there are which I don't want - Socrates
Look how many things there are which I don't want - Socrates
Inopem me copia fecit (Plenty has made me poor) - Ovid
In Thoreau's view, the price of our new leather jacket was not written on the tag ? it was the three days of labouring time needed to purchase it. Buying a car might cost us three hundred days. We pay not with our wallets but with the precious days of our lives - Roman Krznaric, http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2010/11/roman-krz…