"I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

John Elkington

#Thinking Quotes #Social Quotes #Consumerism Quotes

“Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?”
“I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.”
“Orthodox chanting is non-emotional, it's very monotone,”
“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”
“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”
“It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”
“We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.”
“You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.”

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