Dieser Zwang zu Überfluss ist weder effizient für die Umwelt, noch für den Geldbeutel.

Und ist es nicht ein wenig heuchlerisch jemanden „Ruhe in Frieden“ zu wünschen und dann die Bestattung in Überfluss und Opulenz zu veranstalten?

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in which any moralist, pagan or Christian, has every understood the term. And the family (which [Michael] Novak regards as vital to the spirit of democratic capitalism) is precisely the place where the noncapitalist values have to be learned, where one is not free to choose his company and where one is not free to pursue self-interest to the limit. Because capitalism pursues the opposite goals - freedom of each individual to choose and pursue his own ends to the limit of his power - the disintegration of marriage and family life is one of the obvious characteristics of advanced capitalist societies.