“Clearly if something is to be salvaged of the ‘fight for true equality’, the meaning of feminism must be clear. It must… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured… — Rachel Botsman Copy Share Image
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult]… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Garbage Is, always. We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure,… — Robin Nagle Copy Share Image
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.” — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
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