“In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.Richard Wilkinson
“If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.Russell P. Askue
“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"Aeschylus
“Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.Kahlil Gibran
“Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.Rousseau