“Capitalism driven by hedonism, consumerism and globalisation is generally not restrained by the principles of social justice and legislation based upon them.… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise,… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or… — Peter Dickens Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Nobody has any time to sit with art and chew on it and engage with anything in a meaningful way. This is… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the… — Elizabeth Willard Thames Copy Share Image
If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities?… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When they had a… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature… — John Piper Copy Share Image
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