quotes about Planned Obsolescence

“I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.”

Source : 1909 In Pearson's Magazine, Mar.

“Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.”

“We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.”

“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”

“We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”

“Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”

“The only thing sweeter than union is reunion.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

“Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth...”

“Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”

“We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.”