Quotes About Excess

SIMPLICITY is practicing a lifestyle that is increasingly free of excess, greed, covetousness, and other forms of dependence on the things of this world. The Holy Spirit works through simplicity to release spiritual gifts such as hospitality, mercy, and giving... to live free of anxiety, and to better take care of this Earth.

Es ist hell. Es ist Nacht. Es braucht nicht viel. Ich brauche nichts mehr. Die Dinge quellen aus der Tonne, obszön sieht das aus, all die unnützen Sachen, Gier im Kleinen, so fängt das Elend an, mehr zu wollen, als man brauchen kann.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious

A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

Excessive love in loathing ever ends.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo"

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

La avaricia tiene muchos rostros, pero habla un solo idioma: el idioma del «más».

I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast.

He has a lot of coats, said Philologos soberly.

For many people the thrill of having more is intensified by the presence of those who have less. Waste is not the issue here. To many greedy individuals, power lies in withholding resources.

Oftentimes the poor are more addicted to excess because they are the most vulnerable to all the powerful messages in media and in our lives in general which suggest that the only way out of class shame is conspicuous consumption

It has been a frustrating game thus far and [the natives] blow off steam by spending money. Happily there is retail at every turn so the crow doesn't lack for buying opportunities, and it's the same everywhere Bravo has been, the airports, the hotels, the arenas and convention centers, in the downtowns and the suburbs alike, retail dominates the land. Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.

only a foolish asceticism, usually vicarious, makes us continue to insist on work in excessive quantities now that the need no longer exists.

All movements go too far.

the fact that the actual inequalities of power exceed what is made necessary by technical causes, can only be explained in terms of individual psychology and physiology.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the American dream not only destroy so many lives in the U.S., but infect the rest of the world with its obsession with getting more, ignoring the deadly effect that has on the planet.

There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.