“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
“Clearly if something is to be salvaged of the ‘fight for true equality’, the meaning of feminism must be clear. It must… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer.… — Jon Morrison 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
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism.… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Who buys these?" I asked. "Who walks in here and says this, this is what I need?" "People who don't know what… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.” — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured… — Rachel Botsman Copy Share Image
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult]… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“Garbage Is, always. We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure,… — Robin Nagle Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe… — Bruce Feiler 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
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
“In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
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