"The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Addiction Quotes #Ownership Quotes #Mass Quotes

“We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.”
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
“Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.”
“For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.”
“The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.”
“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food”

Source : Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.”
“You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.”

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