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« Consuming is a way to have, and perhaps the most important, in our abundant industrial societies. Consumption has ambiguous qualities: it relieves anxiety because what one has cannot be removed; but it also pushes to consume more and more, because any past consumption quickly loses its satisfactory character. Modern consumers can identify with this formula: I am - what I have and what I consume. »
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« For the first time in history, the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change in the human heart. But this change is only possible to the extent that there are rigorous economic and social changes that can give the human heart the chance to change and the courage and desire to achieve that change. »
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« Their words (to Mesarovic and Pestel) only confirm what others have said before and after the publication of their report: that a new society is only possible if, in the course of its development, a new human being also develops, or, in more modest terms, if a fundamental change occurs in the character structure of contemporary Man. »
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Erich Fromm
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