"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

Arendt, Hannah · Excess · 1 fans >>
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"Riches are for spending."

Bacon, Francis · Excess · 1 fans >>
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"Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah · Excess · 3 fans >>
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"We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate."

Baudrillard, Jean · Excess · 0 fans >>
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"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Blake, William · Excess · 2 fans >>
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

Butler, Samuel · Excess · 0 fans >>
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius · Excess · 4 fans >>
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Maugham, W. Somerset · Excess · 0 fans >>
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"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

Plato · Excess · 2 fans >>
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"Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties."

Sontag, Susan · Excess · 0 fans >>
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