“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” — John Powell Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
“Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over. — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now. — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
Plastic straws might be everything terrible about American consumerism, individually wrapped. But paper straws put the lie to the belief that we… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy.… — Harry Beckwith Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days… — Tulsi Tanti Copy Share Image
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for… — Rick Warren 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
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“The only grown-up other than Jacob who ever came into his schoolroom was Eli Willard. School was in session one day when… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
“I told her stories. They were only a sentence long, each one of them. That’s all I knew how to find. So… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting,… — Benjamin Hoff 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
“Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
