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Quote by Erich Fromm
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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Who covets more, is evermore a slave. – Robert Herrick

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The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. – Paul Eldridge

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