I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. — James Rosen Copy Share Image
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
“People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, money is like oxygen - lack of oxygen can kill you, so can too much of it.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“All-access consumerism is likely finished... This is a permanent change for Americans, who will face a declining standard of living over the… — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead… — Clive Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“They [Otaku] despise physical contact and love media, technical communication, and the realm of reproduction and simulation in general. They are enthusiastic… — Volker Grassmuck Copy Share Image
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural… — Henry Giroux 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
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
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm… — Esther Perel 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
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
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
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Tech companies used to invent solutions to end problems, now they invent problems to sell endless solutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
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