If you're going out for a meal with friends, and they say they can't afford to go to such and such a place, you can't force them to afford it.

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

To think of myself as a body, to be conscious of myself as a body, is to be conscious of other people's consciousness.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.

To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.

I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it?

In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these

That which is not in the interests of the hive cannot be in the interests of the bee.

I want to keep on living, in any form. I resign my body freely, to the uses of others.

Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise.