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
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“Materialism doesn't matter I love you, let's live for laughter Make a maneuver Avoid being apart of consumerism consuming consumers Just be… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch 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
“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead… — Clive Hamilton 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
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
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“I suppose I’ve come a long way from: being drunk enough to drive; tired enough to replace sleep with pills; irresponsible enough… — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who… — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no… — Pope Francis 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
