“Hans: You can live without wants, but you can't live without needs. The society is very focused on wants. Elizabeth Jennings: The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”— Stuart Zicherman, Elizabeth Jennings, Keri Russell, imdb.com
“We say "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" when the focus should be on the fact that there is no ethical PRODUCTION under capitalism. Everything produced under the capitalist mode of production is a result of exploitation. The focus on consumption rather than production places more em…”— Mond Sankara, facebook.com
“Just an FYI: Energy consumed by the United States in one year equals the energy made by the Sun in one millionth of a second.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com