“The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.” MenSeemsGreaterLandPrideIndependencePossessionGratification Author:George Minot
“Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.” MenYearsDesireListeningDirectSatisfactionInstantUnhappinessRoutesGratificationTribulationCounterproductive Author:James E. Faust
“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.” PeopleMenSelfLosesDangerousTasteAnxietyConnectionsSightInstitutionsFortuneDemocraticProsperityPossessionIntensePassagesConsumerismRestraintExclusiveGratificationOverconsumptionCarried AwaySelf Restraint Author:Alexis de Tocqueville