Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“When your underwear costs more than your child's education then you are in serious trouble" RjS” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll remember the experiences and memories you create.” — RICHIE NORTON Copy Share Image
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The attention of a company must be on the welfare of its consumers, not on draining their wallets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“All-access consumerism is likely finished... This is a permanent change for Americans, who will face a declining standard of living over the… — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
We're so used to Christmas being absconded by commercial endeavors and consumerism and all of those aspects of the holiday that have… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about… — Armond White Copy Share Image
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on… — Doug Pagitt Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the… — Dorothy Day 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
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation… — Robert L. Hellbroner Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the… — Gabriella Bennett 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
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Is the burden of independent thought wearing you down? Do you dread the indecision that awaits every time you open your wardrobe?… — Christopher Brookmyre 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
“We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin 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
“The idea of minimalist budgeting, however, is not to divert the money traffic to other expenditures, but rather to allocate your money… — Tyler Logan Copy Share Image
It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
