“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” — John Powell Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Plastic straws might be everything terrible about American consumerism, individually wrapped. But paper straws put the lie to the belief that we… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days… — Tulsi Tanti Copy Share Image
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Apple can become the first trillion dollar company in history, not because they can innovate, but because they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams 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
“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
“Lizabeth Cohen defines the postwar equation of citizenship and consumerism as the emergence of a "consumer's republic" in which consumerism, rather than… — Marita Sturken Copy Share Image
“In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only dust and bits of gold Rolex… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
“Recycling is better--I won't write "good"--for the environment. But without economics--without supply and demand of raw materials--recycling is nothing more than a… — Adam Minter Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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