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
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not the patron saint of etiquette and me attitude stinks of arse, but at least I don’t dictate to… — Rupert Dreyfus Copy Share Image
Plastic straws might be everything terrible about American consumerism, individually wrapped. But paper straws put the lie to the belief that we… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. — Pierre Dukan Copy Share Image
“The different strategies and visions of ‘reformists’ and ‘radicals’ are not the only subject of major debate within lesbian, gay, bisexual and… — Richard Dunphy Copy Share Image
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
“Live from abundance; Utilize with economy; Share in advance.” — Geoffrey M. Gluckman Copy Share Image
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual’s control—what happens to our jobs,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich 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
If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Apple can become the first trillion dollar company in history, not because they can innovate, but because they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
