“In my view, dissatisfaction is implicit in the fabric of consumerism.” — Dave Bruno 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
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry. — Pope Francis 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
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. — James Rosen Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, money is like oxygen - lack of oxygen can kill you, so can too much of it.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“To escape consumerism and conformity, you must turn your back and ignore the mainstream culture. The shackles when then fall away, the… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary… — William Law Copy Share Image
“When the marketplace became crowded with scores of similar products that mostly did what they were supposed to do, companies focused less… — Greg Carlson 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 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
“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
“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is… — Zoltan Istvan 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
“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
“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
Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult]… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
“Garbage Is, always. We will die, civilization will crumble, life as we know it will cease to exist, but trash will endure,… — Robin Nagle Copy Share Image
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured… — Rachel Botsman Copy Share Image
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and… — Ivan Illich 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 about these things [political scientists, journalists, public relations experts and so on]―which says that precisely because the state has lost the power to…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/noam-chomsky-42_consumerism_so-in-the-twentieth-century-there-s-a-ma_2760423.jpg)
![“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult] images of people smiling in cars, happy homes and holidays, triggers deep feelings of insecurity.” quote by Nick van der Leek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/nick-van-der-leek-73605_cults_when-we-re-so-caught-up-in-a-culture-of_848306.jpg)
