--- title: "1 Got Rich Quotes By Kalle Lasn" description: "1 Got Rich quotes by Kalle Lasn. Plus more from Kalle Lasn and more Got Rich sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/kalle-lasn-22904_clear_we-got-rich-by-violating-one-of-the-cent_2727963.png" --- > [We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/we-got-rich-by-violating-one-of-the-central-tenets-of-economics-thou/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/kalle-lasn-22904_clear_we-got-rich-by-violating-one-of-the-cent_2727963.png) ## Other authors on Got Rich ## More by Kalle Lasn > [An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/an-increasing-number-of-people-are-growing-uncomfortable-with-the/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/it-s-a-measure-of-the-depth-of-our-consumer-trance-that-the-death-of/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/the-commercial-media-are-to-the-mental-environment-what-factories-are/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/our-mental-environment-is-a-common-property-resource-like-the-air-or/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/all-of-us-somehow-felt-that-the-next-battleground-was-going-to-be/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/the-global-economy-is-a-doomsday-machine-that-must-be-stopped-and/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/corporations-are-not-legal-persons-with-constitutional-rights-and/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/amming-a-coin-into-a-monopoly-newspaper-box-or-liberating-a-billboard/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/in-the-soviet-union-you-weren-t-allowed-to-speak-out-against-the/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/overconsumption-is-the-mother-of-all-environmental-problems-for-the/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/the-most-powerful-narcotic-in-the-world-is-the-promise-of-belonging/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [“Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/do-an-overwhelming-number-of-respected-scientists-believe-that-human/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/there-is-a-profound-injustice-at-the-heart-of-the-american-economy/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/american-culture-is-no-longer-created-by-the-people-a-free-authentic/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) > [I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kalle-lasn/i-believe-that-one-of-the-most-powerful-things-of-all-is-aesthetics/) [Kalle Lasn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kalle-lasn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/got-rich/kalle-lasn/#itemlist", "name": "1 Got Rich Quotes By Kalle Lasn", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. 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