Philip Slater quotes
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“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 viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.182, Beacon Press
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“Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (1974). “Earth-walk”
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“A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Elliot Slater (1977). “The wayward gate: science and the supernatural”
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“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, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press
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“We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.29, Beacon Press
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“Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.120, Beacon Press
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“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 the social problems the last invention created.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : "The Joys of Technology: Burying Ourselves in Capabilities" by Philip Slater, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.
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“Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.”
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“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 their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Elliot Slater (1980). “Wealth Addiction”, Dutton Adult
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“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 most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.”
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“If we define ***** as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.”
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“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 better than we found it.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Elliot Slater (1991). “A Dream Deferred: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, Beacon Pr
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“People can bear anything.”
-- Philip SlaterSource : Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.133, Beacon Press
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