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Quotes from The Pursuit of Loneliness — Philip Slater

1927–2013 United States

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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)

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)

[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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip Slater (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.