Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Felix Greene

British-American Journalist who chronicled Communist countries

"To keep people buying, you need first to make them dissatisfied with what they have… Advertising is nothing more than a technique to keep people in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction with what they possess and in a permanent state of itchy acquisitiveness."