Philip Slater Quotes
- Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little…
- If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements…
- A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
- Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for…
- At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what…
- Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a…
- One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate…
- Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody…
- Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to…
- Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
- The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors,…
- I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it…
- Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a…