An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who… — Thomas Sowell 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
“No one told her Trader Joe's sold Advent calendars for cats. She found out on her own, rolling her card down the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
Too many commercials, too many lies Too many celebrities I don't recognize Too many brand names, too many magazines I got so… — Fred Small Copy Share Image
“I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
... the aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only… — Manfred Max Neef Copy Share Image
“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have… — Tracy Chapman 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
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson 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 consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
