School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

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