Famous quotes containing the words luxury and/or goods:
“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horseas a luxury befitting a young man.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (17831842)
“This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.”
—David Hume (17111776)