One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.