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
Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop… — Pope Paul VI 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
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall 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
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know… — Paul the Apostle 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
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
“The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty." Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You do not cut… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell 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
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. — Geoffrey Miller 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
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
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
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
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's… — Pink Copy Share Image
