“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
“By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional -… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“People are cast in the underclass because they are seen as totally useless; as a nuisance pure and simple, something the rest… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
“According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.” — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism” — James Davison Hunter 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
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, money is like oxygen - lack of oxygen can kill you, so can too much of it.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“People are shopping these days. The stores are crowded. Buyers are intent but not gay. The news of the atomic bomb came… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan 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
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
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