“A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society.”— Bhumibol Adulyadej
“Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood of our veins.”— William R. Alger
“Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness.”— Theodore Kaczynski
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.”— J. G. Ballard
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.”— John Berger