What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Apple doesn’t care about privacy. All it cares about is privacy for the privileged.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. — David Shi Copy Share Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. — Pierre Dukan Copy Share Image
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist?… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through… — Larry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It dawned on me that my world was defined by accumulation, by the gratification of acquiring things, of seeing numbers go up… — Leon Logothetis Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes.… — Sinclair Dumontais Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood 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
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
“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
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
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
“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“Well, in our society, we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can't get involved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally. — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“...when you own a lot of rubbish, it's tough to simplify your life.” — Leon Logothetis Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
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