“People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.” — Clive Hamilton Copy Share Image
“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now. — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over. — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.” — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.” — L G Durand Copy Share Image
... the aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only… — Manfred Max Neef Copy Share Image
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy.… — Harry Beckwith 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
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
“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
“The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The only grown-up other than Jacob who ever came into his schoolroom was Eli Willard. School was in session one day when… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
“Life and Abundance (The Sonnet) A person to take refuge in, a purpose to be driven by, that's all you need to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
“To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
