Great Throughts Treasury

"The world has the wealth and resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life. We consume too much when market relationships displace the bonds of community, compassion, culture, and place. We consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world."

"The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact."