It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
“Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The attention of a company must be on the welfare of its consumers, not on draining their wallets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“All-access consumerism is likely finished... This is a permanent change for Americans, who will face a declining standard of living over the… — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we… — Bernard Stiegler Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation… — Robert L. Hellbroner Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Is the burden of independent thought wearing you down? Do you dread the indecision that awaits every time you open your wardrobe?… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“People are cast in the underclass because they are seen as totally useless; as a nuisance pure and simple, something the rest… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“The idea of minimalist budgeting, however, is not to divert the money traffic to other expenditures, but rather to allocate your money… — Tyler Logan Copy Share Image
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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