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“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”

Men Needs Giving Earth Lying Hours Pleasure Existence Fantasy Civilization Cost Giving Up Increase Dear Treated Luxury Our Time Fraud Rebel Indispensable Superfluous Unsatisfied

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Long Giving Up Victim Monsters Luxury Get Away Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Giving Up Luxury Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.”

Giving Self Moments Kids School Earth Grows My Own Modern Willing Giving Up Bread Luxury Sufficient Rely Modern Life Wheat Self Sufficient Earth Life

Author:Lauren Groff

“We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.”

People Thinking Giving Earth Pay Economic Planets Giving Up Models Debt Setting Settings Luxury Selfishness Individualism Consumption Ecological Planet Earth Earth Day Economic Models

Author:Evo Morales

“Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up”

Giving Easy Difficult Giving Up Luxury

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")”

Ifs World Needs Giving Dream Moving Spirit Promise Giving Up Core Luxury Poetry Is Our World Fountain

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”

Giving Age Giving Up Luxury Vanity

Book:TransAtlantic

Source: TransAtlantic