“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.” KnowsMenWantLifeDoeLastsForeverGreedAverageThis LifeAverage ManGreediness Author:Anatole France
“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.” KnowsMenLittlesEnoughActionDesirePowerfulRichInstitutionsPropertyInstinctAverageMotiveConsumerismPersistentPrivate LifePrivate PropertyOverconsumptionPlunderAverage ManHoardingSatiety Book:Outspoken essays Source: Outspoken essays
“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.” MenMatterHellStandardsIndependentStriveAverageConformAbnormalResemblanceAverage ManNormal And AbnormalLexicographer Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World