I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield 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
“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a… — John Elkington Copy Share Image
“A pre-recorded message, timed to go off just as the crowd was reaching a fever pitch. A way to get them to… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of… — Pedro Winter Copy Share Image
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that… — Marva Dawn 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
We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture. — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
