By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“customer-service approach co-opts and domesticates any oppositional practices that manage to gain steam, and protects consumerism’s core operating principles: that social relations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake… — Thomas Merton 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
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And since one of the main purposes of social policy is to keep the population passive, people with power are going to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.” — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.” — L G Durand Copy Share Image
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. — Aesop Copy Share Image
“Tech companies used to invent solutions to end problems, now they invent problems to sell endless solutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
