10 quotes
Americans need to wake up to the fact that right-wing Republicans don't believe in democracy and never have.
Instead of using money to serve ourselves, we use ourselves to serve money.
Wealth Addiction (1980)
The idea that everybody wants money is propaganda circulated by wealth addicts to make themselves feel better about their addiction.
Wealth Addiction (1980)
Americans continually find themselves in the position of having killed someone to avoid sharing a meal which turns out to be too large to eat alone.
The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970)
Everyone talks about democracy, but few people have any idea why it exists, why it is happening now, or where it will lead. Most people see it as a merely political phenomenon—which is a little like seeing TV as merely an electrical phenomenon.
A Dream Deferred (1992)
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.
The Pursuit of Loneliness (1990)
[If] the purposes for which money were designed were fulfilled completely, there would be no reason for humans to exist as decision-making beings.
Wealth Addiction (1980)
[If] you brainwash people into forgetting that they're part of each other, you can manipulate them...that's how individualism leads to fascism - divide and conquer.
the New York Times. From the documentary film Paradox on 72nd Street (1982)
[E]very morning all 200 million of us get out of bed and put a lot of energy into creating and re-creating the social calamities that oppress, infuriate and exhaust us.
The Pursuit of Loneliness (1976)
As a society, we encourage selfishness. We expect people to be interested primarily in their private or family welfare, with little concern for community needs. The care of the sick, old, disturbed, or poor, for example—a task that most societies take for granted—is carried out grudgingly, carelessly, or not at all.