Quote of the week – Jimmy Carter

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“In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God–too many of us now, tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things, and consuming things, does not satisfy our longing for meaning.  We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose ” – President Jimmy Carter (1975 Address to Nation)

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  • greg

    Is this from the malaise speech?

  • SV3PI

    That was like 35yrs ago…I guess nobody listened to his speech bk then…thanks for pointing this out!!! I’d like to give a similar speech about “stuff” and the “all consuming drive” to aquire more stuff. We think this stufff will make us happy, we think that having more stuff is the answer to our problems, we go out looking for stuff and when we find it we want more stuff!!! It’s all a bunch of STUFF!!!…& now that I think about it; stuff is an awfully peculiar/funny word…stuff, stuff, stuff!!!! LOLOLOL

  • Anonymous

    yeah man, that speech is so relevant now. its wild to me how our government went from telling us to not be consumed with material things and consuming, to our government telling us to go out and spend, spend, spend and have things. times sure have changed.

  • bjg

    I completely agree with both of you – thanks for posting print!

  • Sam

    I think I first saw a clip of that speech in Michael Moore’s last movie. People like Carter are hard to come by these days…