Consumerism Quotes

“Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Caesar of the 21st century : I came! I saw! I bought!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

— Lorne Michaels

And I encourage you all to go shopping more

— Anonymous

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

— Will Rogers

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

— Vicki Robin

The faster you go, the idler you get.

— Ferreira Gullar

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

— Bryant H. McGill

“I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.

— Faith Popcorn

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

— Russell Brand

“Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.”

— Susan Ee

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

— Bill Bryson

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

— Josemaria Escriva

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

— Rajneesh

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

— Geoffrey Miller

“Earn, consume, and enjoy life. Offend no one; don’t get offended. Don’t take sides; don’t take a stand. Don’t interfere; don’t get…

— Abhaidev

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music,…

— Macklemore

Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and…

— Bret Stephens

“Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a…

— Susan Willis

Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have…

— Tracy Chapman

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that…

— Tariq Ramadan

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not…

— Heather Bresch

“Our culture tells us to want sex, pleasure, and instant gratification. Every hit song raves about it. Consumerism tells us that we…

— Michael J Heil

It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is…

— Ronald J. Sider

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no…

— Pope Francis

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is…

— Jeremy Seabrook

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the…

— Eric Sevareid

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn…

— Henry David Thoreau

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must…

— Karl Marx

“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first…

— Colson Whitehead

“Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those…

— David McRaney

“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate…

— David Bentley Hart

“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.…

— Virginie Despentes

“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting,…

— Benjamin Hoff

“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could…

— Mark Fisher

“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we…

— Matthew Fox