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
In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be… — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on… — Doug Pagitt 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 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
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
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is only when a company cares for its consumers as much as the consumers care for its products or services, can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which… — Gavin Nascimento Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale.… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
“Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible. If we feel… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken.… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
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