“The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Bertrand Russell
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
Ellen Goodman
