Oscar Wilde Quotes

I come from garbage.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.

Superdevelopment leads to a throwaway society and to enormous waste. Excessive access to all kinds of things,—sometimes called consumerism—enslaves people and does not make them happy.

We spend millions of dollars to print this stuff (The Congressional Record). It’s all on line. We are tearing down trees to print material we do not need.

People mean well. But there is an unintended consequence of giving people bigger recycling bins and more opportunities to recycle—soon they want to recycle everything.

India's waste problem is gigantic, and with its economy growing steadily, it will be compounded manifold.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

Mine is a jealous heart, imagines things that never are.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across--hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

Jealousy takes root in the soil of insecurity.