I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“a life that values relationships and experiences over ownership and consumerism can be freer and more fulfilling.” — Genevieve Parker Hill Copy Share Image
“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism. — Bonnie Hammer 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
“People are shopping these days. The stores are crowded. Buyers are intent but not gay. The news of the atomic bomb came… — E.B. White 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
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
We're so used to Christmas being absconded by commercial endeavors and consumerism and all of those aspects of the holiday that have… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about… — Armond White Copy Share Image
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is only when a company cares for its consumers as much as the consumers care for its products or services, can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
“[Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The different strategies and visions of ‘reformists’ and ‘radicals’ are not the only subject of major debate within lesbian, gay, bisexual and… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“GDCC M. Wolf has a dehumanized approach to demand. Demand is not an animal. Manipulating… — Cathal Haughian Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“When your underwear costs more than your child's education then you are in serious trouble" RjS” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll remember the experiences and memories you create.” — RICHIE NORTON Copy Share Image
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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