Quote by Guy Debord
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

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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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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

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Consumerism
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. – Vernon Howard

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Consumerism

Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: maximum economic growth generated by maximized corporate profit, fueled by mass production, fueled by mass consumerism. – David Edwards

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Consumerism

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. – Johann von Goethe

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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

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War

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. – Joseph Smith, Jr.

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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. – Albert Ellis

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Change

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. – Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

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