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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love a

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. – Guy Debord

Other quotes by Guy Debord

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. – Guy Debord

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Ego
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Guy Debord
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

Category:
Modern, Modernism
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Guy Debord
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Other Quotes from
Consumerism
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. – Francis H. Bradley

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Consumerism

Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised. – Adriano Tilgher

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Consumerism

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world. – Adriano Tilgher

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Consumerism

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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Consumerism

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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. – Chuck Palahniuk

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alone

The groves were God’s first temples. – William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

Category:
Trees

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. – Franz Kafka

Category:
positive

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Imagination