Quotes by Philip Slater

Philip Slater

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

Coincidence

Decided

Trends

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it’s limited by each individual’s capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

Capacity

Community

Individual

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Long

Men

Twenties

Despair … is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality – it’s a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

Mourning

People

Reality

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant’s throne.

Bricks

Thrones

Tyrants

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

Lasts

Needs

Problem

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

Deprivation

Emotional

Needs

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.

Communication

Excitement

Messages

It is a mistake – as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered – to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable democratic society needs a ceiling and a floor with regard to the distribution of wealth and assets.

Ceilings

Mistake

Trying

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Change

Feelings

Passion

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Buying Things

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Change

Coincidence

Communication

Community

Decided

Deprivation

Emotional

Excitement

Feelings

Feels

Giving

Individual

Jobs

Lasts

Lonely

Long

Men

Messages

Mistake

Mourning

Needs

Our Society

Passion

People

Politics

Privacy

Problem

Reality

Riches

Successful

Thrones

Trends

Trying

Twenties

Tyrants

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Quotes by Philip Slater

Philip Slater

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it’s limited by each individual’s capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Despair … is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality – it’s a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant’s throne.

Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

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