The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“... I was disturbed by how many of my classmates disliked Thoreau, railed against him even, as if he (who claimed never… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a… — Benjamin R. Barber Copy Share Image
In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not the patron saint of etiquette and me attitude stinks of arse, but at least I don’t dictate to… — Rupert Dreyfus Copy Share Image
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of biblical texts tell us that God still measures our societies by what we do to the poorest. Jesus’ words still… — Al Kresta Copy Share Image
Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
A large percentage of those living in developed societies are told what brand of soda they should drink, what cigarettes they should… — Fidel Castro 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
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is… — Emilio Pucci Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Why does Joe Normie think it’s a litmus test for morality if one returns one’s shopping cart? Big-box stores put out of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
