Modern Society Quotes

"We consume, but we are not satisfied" "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality" "I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding." "We are digital minds in an analog world." "How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home." "I don’t think our Founding Fathers had the idea that some day we would all be driving around in armored escalades with military weapons in our cars." "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities" "The world is turning into this gigantic library of everything, and it is sometimes difficult to know what we are doing" "Western culture has things a bit backward. We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we'd be happy"