“The need to imitate that the consumer experiences is truly an infantile need, one determined by every aspect of his fundamental disposession.… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human… — Zoltan Istvan 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
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
TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist?… — Ellen DeGeneres 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
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
“As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer.… — Jon Morrison 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
“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the… — Elizabeth Willard Thames Copy Share Image
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through… — Larry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
