“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.”
John Burdett
“The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
Elise M. Boulding
“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
Edward L. Bernays
“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”
Aldous Huxley
art: "Saint Francis Preaching to the Appliances" by Winston Smith
