Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.” — Holly Grigg-Spall Copy Share Image
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On… — John Elkington 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
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon 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
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
