“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 Slater
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.” ― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs
“Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.” ― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.” ― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs