Quotes by Philip Slater - Page 1

People can bear anything.
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Bears
People
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Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.
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Bricks
Thrones
Tyrants
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A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
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Coincidence
Decided
Trends
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We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
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Feels
Lonely
Privacy
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Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
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Deprivation
Emotional
Needs
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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.
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Change
Feelings
Passion
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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 are covertly pornographic.
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Communication
Excitement
Messages
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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.
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Lasts
Needs
Problem
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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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Men
Long
Twenties
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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.
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Giving
People
Reality
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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.
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Jobs
Buying Things
People
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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.
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Mourning
People
Reality
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A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).
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Capacity
Community
Individual
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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 Slater / Writer
Politics
Our Society
Riches
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It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.
Philip Slater / Writer
Ceilings
Mistake
Trying
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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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Attitude
Feelings
Successful
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