David Cay Johnston; How The One Percent Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (Jun 23, 2009)
“…increasing remoteness of desires from needs. …increasing confusion between means and ends. The ends are human needs… Instead they want the means they have been brainwashed to accept… Never was any society in human history as rich and as powerful as Western Civilization and the United States, and it is not a happy society.”
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
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Source: The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925), p. 112
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 1: The New Era in World Politics, § 1 : Introduction: Flags And Cultural Identity
Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”
in A Treasury Of Inspirational Thoughts http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rdHW86GkUrMC&pg=PA68, p. 58
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Context: Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
“Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
Source: Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester (3 April 1872), cited in The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 (eds. David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler), pp. 309-338.