2 Quotes by G.A. Cohen

The promise of abundance is not an endless flow of goods but a sufficiency produced with a minimum of unpleasant exertion.

Of course, not everybody likes camping trips. I do not myself enjoy them much, because I'm not outdoorsy, or at any rate, I'm not outdoorsy overnight-without-a-matress-wise. There's a limit to the outdoorsiness to which some academics can be expected to submit.