Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Garbage Is, always. We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure,… — Robin Nagle Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass 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
“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten… — Peter Buffett 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
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be , without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
