When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu 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
If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre… — Leigh Whannell 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
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the… — Eric Sevareid 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
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
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
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
“For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's… — Pink Copy Share Image
“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel… — Propertius Copy Share Image
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism.… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
“Clearly if something is to be salvaged of the ‘fight for true equality’, the meaning of feminism must be clear. It must… — Nina Power 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
“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving… — Louis Yako 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
“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of… — Lewis H. Lapham 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 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
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
