Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence a…

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming…

'Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutti…