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Quotes about excess

  • 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)
  • Riches are for spending. (Arendt Hannah)
  • 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. (Arendt Hannah)
  • The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (Arendt Hannah)
  • All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Arendt Hannah)
  • To go too far is as bad as to fall short. (Arendt Hannah)
  • Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (Arendt Hannah)
  • Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. (Arendt Hannah)
  • 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. (Arendt Hannah)
  • I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad. (Arendt Hannah)
  • Nothing in excess. (Arendt Hannah)
  • Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. (Arendt Hannah)
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