It all looks American because America, the country that…

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive…

— David Foster Wallace

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

“It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as well as…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Capitalism driven by hedonism, consumerism and globalisation is generally not restrained by the principles of social justice and legislation based upon them. One of…

— Yaakov Malkin

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

“As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and selling of…

— George Saunders

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they…

— Sinclair Dumontais

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish…

— Russell Means

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

— Jeff Koons

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen