Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives… — Wendell Berry 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
“When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus,… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson 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
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
