“Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
“the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“A pre-recorded message, timed to go off just as the crowd was reaching a fever pitch. A way to get them to… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy… — Pope John Paul II 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
The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.'… — John Silber Copy Share Image
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu 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
“had failed to learn the value of money and how to work for it. And in a Center for a New American… — Richard Bromfield Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level… — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only dust and bits of gold Rolex… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
“Lizabeth Cohen defines the postwar equation of citizenship and consumerism as the emergence of a "consumer's republic" in which consumerism, rather than… — Marita Sturken Copy Share Image
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Life and Abundance (The Sonnet) A person to take refuge in, a purpose to be driven by, that's all you need to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
