You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

- Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

- Vance Packard

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail i…

- Vance Packard

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwis…

- Vance Packard

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

- Vance Packard

Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catc…

- Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

- Vance Packard

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.

- Vance Packard

New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these …

- Vance Packard