Philip Slater famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 theyâ€™ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.
-- Philip Slater

#Jobs #People #Way
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 Slater

#Reality #People #Mourning
A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
-- Philip Slater

#Trends #Coincidence
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

#Politics #Our Society #Riches
We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.
-- Philip Slater

#Lonely #Privacy #Feels
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.
-- Philip Slater

#Emotional #Needs #Deprivation
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 Slater

#Lasts #Needs #Problem
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.
-- Philip Slater

#Attitude #Successful #Feelings
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 Slater

#Reality #Giving #People
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.
-- Philip Slater

#Men #Long #Needs
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.
-- Philip Slater

#Communication #Messages #Excitement
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 Slater

#Passion #Feelings #World
People can bear anything.
-- Philip Slater

#People #Bears

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