Robert > Robert's Quotes

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Familiar letters

“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

“Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.”
― Khalil Gibran

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.”
― Bill Holm, The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland

“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.”
― Claire Cross, Double Trouble

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa