There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone… — Yekaterina Samutsevich Copy Share Image
The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are… — Mike Horn Copy Share Image
“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money… — Emile Gauvreau Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination --… — Armond White Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which… — Gavin Nascimento Copy Share Image
“I've bought these peanuts before. They're round, cubical, pock-marked, seamed. Broken peanuts. A lot of dust at the bottom of the jar.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that… — Native American Copy Share Image
The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
“Materialism doesn't matter I love you, let's live for laughter Make a maneuver Avoid being apart of consumerism consuming consumers Just be… — Andrew Edward Lucier Copy Share Image
I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion.… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
“I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale.… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual’s control—what happens to our jobs,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
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