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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.

Philip Slater

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.

Philip Slater

One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.

Philip Slater

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they'll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.

Philip Slater

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.

Philip Slater

We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.

Philip Slater

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

Philip Slater

Philip Slater

Philip Slater

Born: May 15, 1927

Died: June 20, 2013 (aged 86)

Bio: Philip Elliot Slater was an American sociologist and writer. He was the author of the bestselling 1970 book on American culture, The Pursuit of Loneliness and of numerous other books and articles.

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