Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.
Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.
For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Ambition is greed without makeup.
Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.
I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; tower...
Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.
I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.
American consumers benefit from disparity & exploitation. I benefit from disparity & exploitation & so does my family. there is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain" --casey gr...
With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.
If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.
If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation name advertising. How else should one identify...
Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a s...
According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.
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