The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety of commodities produced. And taking our cue from this sector, we measure social progress by the distribution of access to these commodities. Economics has been developed as propaganda for the takeover by large-scale commodity producers.

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.