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Instead of using money to serve ourselves, we use ourselves to serve money.

— Philip Slater Wealth Addiction (1980)

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Americans need to wake up to the fact that right-wing Republicans don't believe in democracy and never have.

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)

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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