Jesse Ventura Quotes

I am totally unattached to material items.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."

It's great not to be a collector.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.