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I thought about becoming an atheist, but I found out they don't have holidays. Henny Youngman

Labour to get thoroughly convinced that there is something else needs caring for more… Jonathan Edwards (Yes, THE Jonathan Edwards of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”)

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“[Marxists and capitalists agree on beliefs] which play such a great role in twentieth century thought... [they] pretend that man is his own producer and maker... even though it is clear that nobody has "made" himself or "produced" his existence; this, I think, is the last of the metaphysical fallacies, corresponding to the modern age's emphasis on willing as a substitute for thinking...” Hannah Arendt, Life of the Mind, volume one, page 215

 

“ [Modern man is in] …rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has himself made.” Hannah Arendt, Life of the Mind, volume one, page 215

 

"It is true: in human work .. an apparently self sufficient cosmos is constructed out of human ability, enterprise and achievement, goods and valuables as the goal of all prior work and the prerequisite for all future human work. It lies at hand that this human edifice, like a canopy, obscures the true cosmos beyond ... indeed screening out even God, leaving people with the deception that they behold God, whom they are to serve, in the culture which they have created and which has taken on an apparent life of its own." [Karl Barth, Kirchliche Dogmatik III/4, Zollikon 1951, p.598] 

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Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
342 FH,
Leisure Studies
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Benjamin-hunnicutt@uiowa.edu

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342 FH

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(319) 335-9953, Fax: (319) 335-6669

Geneva Lecture, 2003

Homily given at Trinity Episcopal Labor Day 2011

 

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Reviews of KELLOGG'S SIX HOUR DAY

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Teaching

169:072 Leisure and the Liberal Arts (Spring 2012-- Lecture, Time and Location: Lecture:  2:00P - 2:50P TTh 109 EPB

 

169:273 Work and Leisure in American Culture (Spring 2012 – Lecture 9:30A - 10:45A TTh 424 FH

 

 

169:040 The Good Society

169:200 History and Philosophy

 

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“The higher people are on the materialist scale, the lower they are on the happiness scale.”
Dr. Robert Lane

“The data show that money has minor and rapidly diminishing effects on happiness.”
Dr. Daniel Gilbert

“Materialism is toxic for happiness. So if you're poor, it's very bad to be a materialist; and if you're rich, it doesn't make you happier than nonmaterialists, but you almost catch up.”
Dr. Ed Diener

“People grossly exaggerate the impact that higher incomes would have on their subjective well-being.”
Dr. Alan Krueger

“The relationship between money and happiness is pretty darned small.”
Dr. Peter Ubel

“Individuals who strive most for wealth tend to live with lower well-being, a finding that comes through very strongly in every culture I’ve looked at.”
Dr. Richard Ryan

“Certainly research on happiness indicates that once a person has a comfortable standard of living, increased income and consumption does not lead to increased life satisfaction
and happiness. People find meaning and happiness through their connections with other people, through their engagement in interesting activities, and their participation in communities much more than through lavish consumption.”
Dr. Erik Olin Wright

“Once you reach a reasonable standard of living, about the level of Mexico today, after that point, the growth in wealth doesn't add to happiness.”
Dr. Ruut Veenhoven

“Riches leave a man always as much and sometimes more exposed than before to anxiety, to fear and to sorrow.”
Adam Smith

“Modern consumer capitalism will flourish as long as what people desire outpaces what they have. It is thus vital to the reproduction of the system that individuals are constantly made to feel dissatisfied with what they have. Growth is said to be the process whereby people's wants are satisfied so that they become happier. In reality, economic growth can be sustained
only as long as people remain discontented. Economic growth does not create happiness: unhappiness sustains economic growth.”
Dr. Clive Hamilton

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”
Will Rogers

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
Vernon Howard

“He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.” proverb

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Materialism and morality have an inverse relationship. When one increases, the other decreases.”
Mahatma Gandhi

If the American consumer did a thorough cost-benefit analysis on every purchase before it was made, 90% of it would stay in the store. This is why Christmas is so important to our economy. As easy as it is to buy ourselves things we don't need, it's even easier to buy them for someone else.”
Dr. Philip Slater


“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”
Fulton Sheen

“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
Richard Wagner

“Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'“
C.S. Lewis

“No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.”
Joy Davidman

“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.”
Matthew Arnold

“Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.”
Erich Fromm

“…the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having.”
Brian D. McLaren

“I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.”
Peter Maurin

“There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.”
E. Stanley Jones

“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.”
William James

“It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.”
Montaigne

“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
G. K. Chesterton

“[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.”
G. K. Chesterton

“There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.”
Wendell Berry

“It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.”
Charles Horton Cooley

“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer

“Great wealth and content seldom live together.”
Thomas Fuller

“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.”
Socrates