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Top 15 Mark Boyle Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Boyle Quote: “We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.”

1. “We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “If we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t contaminate it.”

2. “If we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t contaminate it.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.”

3. “One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

4. “The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that’s when you achieve true freedom.”

5. “When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that’s when you achieve true freedom.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “I think it’s wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one’s needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it’s only one way.”

6. “I think it’s wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one’s needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it’s only one way.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “Art should be waged like war.”

7. “Art should be waged like war.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “If there is a danger in the human trajectory it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”

8. “If there is a danger in the human trajectory it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfilment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “We’re convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I’ve found the opposite to be true.”

9. “We’re convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I’ve found the opposite to be true.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.”

10. “In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “We’re at a crucial point in history. We cannot have fast cars, computers the size of credit cards, and modern conveniences, whilst simultaneously having clean air, abundant rainforests, fresh drinking water and a stable climate. This generation can have one or the other but not both. Humanity must make a choice. Both have an opportunity cost. Gadgetry or nature? Pick the wrong one and the next generations may have neither.”

11. “We’re at a crucial point in history. We cannot have fast cars, computers the size of credit cards, and modern conveniences, whilst simultaneously having clean air, abundant rainforests, fresh drinking water and a stable climate. This generation can have one or the other but not both. Humanity must make a choice. Both have an opportunity cost. Gadgetry or nature? Pick the wrong one and the next generations may have neither.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French workers threw their wooden shoes into the machines to damage them, simply because these machines were replacing their skilled crafts. The act became so common that it gave rise to the word sabotage.”

12. “During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French workers threw their wooden shoes into the machines to damage them, simply because these machines were replacing their skilled crafts. The act became so common that it gave rise to the word sabotage.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “If a person perceives their self to be the entire whole, then to act in your own self-interest would involve making decisions where looking after yourself would mean protecting the rivers, atmosphere, soil and forests that provide the hydrogen, oxygen and minerals that make up the physical elements of what you presently define as ‘I’.”

13. “If a person perceives their self to be the entire whole, then to act in your own self-interest would involve making decisions where looking after yourself would mean protecting the rivers, atmosphere, soil and forests that provide the hydrogen, oxygen and minerals that make up the physical elements of what you presently define as ‘I’.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “Sitting by the rocket stove in the fire-hut, tending to a brew, I put the finishing touches to a soup spoon. It’s not perfect, yet every imperfection tells a story of my afternoon, which makes it perfect to me, and me only. When I eat soup from this day forth, that small dent in the bottom will be my Buddha, but I’m content with it. There’s no point being otherwise.”

14. “Sitting by the rocket stove in the fire-hut, tending to a brew, I put the finishing touches to a soup spoon. It’s not perfect, yet every imperfection tells a story of my afternoon, which makes it perfect to me, and me only. When I eat soup from this day forth, that small dent in the bottom will be my Buddha, but I’m content with it. There’s no point being otherwise.”

Mark Boyle Quote: “They say that if you feel you don’t have fifteen minutes to meditate each day, then you need to do an hour.”

15. “They say that if you feel you don’t have fifteen minutes to meditate each day, then you need to do an hour.”

$Mark Boyle Quote: “Whereas in January I was spending as much on stamps as I had previously done on a mobile phone, now I’m only spending a fraction of it. It’s an odd mix of feeling forgotten on one hand and, on the other, feeling liberated from relentless communication with people who, in all likelihood, live too far away for our relationship to deepen.”$

16. “Whereas in January I was spending as much on stamps as I had previously done on a mobile phone, now I’m only spending a fraction of it. It’s an odd mix of feeling forgotten on one hand and, on the other, feeling liberated from relentless communication with people who, in all likelihood, live too far away for our relationship to deepen.”

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