I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. — Michael Moore 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
“Why sit and stare at a box beaming messages indoctrinating us into consumer culture for hours a day when there are so… — Annie Leonard 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
“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.” — Bryant McGill 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
Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who… — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman 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
“everyday life, consumer culture and technology, while our own question (what makes consumption grow?) is outside scope.4 Thus, we found an empirical… — Fatos Goksen Copy Share Image
We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not… — John Seabrook 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
“Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the… — Erin McKeown 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
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
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
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland 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
The consumer culture in general has washed over our civilization. For the last 50 years, if you've had a credit card and… — Bill McKibben 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
Our consumer culture is fed by an increasingly sophisticated advertising industry that likes you, friends you, follows you, adds a plus to… — Leon Lazarus 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
“In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least… — Esther Perel 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
“Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be… — Naomi Wolf 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
“Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent… — Takashi Murakami 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
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
I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are… — Kenzaburo Oe 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
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