To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based. (Michel Houellebecq)

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Michel Houellebecq

Related topics

inaccessible increase making single western

Related quotes

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. View quote
James Baldwin
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. View quote
Karl Marx
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. View quote
Harriet Martineau