“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. — William S. Burroughs 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
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry 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
“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 individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“80 percent of the things we buy, are not because we need them, but because our subconscious mind is trying to fill… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried… — John Gorka Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Public concern for the environment cannot be addressed by placing the blame on growth without spelling out the causes of growth. Nor… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It means that, while our branded world can exploit the unmet need to be part of something larger than ourselves, it can’t… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Reimagine 2025 by Stewart Stafford Imagine no Viagra, Put yourself at ease, Flags at half-mast, limp, No one worthy to please. Imagine… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“In my view, dissatisfaction is implicit in the fabric of consumerism.” — Dave Bruno Copy Share Image
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
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
“Purpose driven technology will continue to flourish, whereas profit driven technology will either perish or destroy the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
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