Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to... the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that se...eks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that creates the wants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persua...sive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young chil...dren to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by ...the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than ...forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »