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
“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. — Timothy Morton 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
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“80 percent of the things we buy, are not because we need them, but because our subconscious mind is trying to fill… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never… — Bob Dylan 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
The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.” — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our culture tells us to want sex, pleasure, and instant gratification. Every hit song raves about it. Consumerism tells us that we… — Michael J Heil 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
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“I see that you’re about to leave, Rick. I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss the Thighmaster over there?… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Public concern for the environment cannot be addressed by placing the blame on growth without spelling out the causes of growth. Nor… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The place where french-postmodernism has been really harmful is the Third World. Because Third World intellectuals are badly needed in popular movements,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroad because they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. — James Rosen Copy Share Image
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry. — Pope Francis 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
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