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
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin 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
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
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry 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
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
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
“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
“Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.” — L G Durand 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
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — Steven Pressfield 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
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
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
“According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
