What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist?… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. — Pierre Dukan Copy Share Image
Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. — David Shi Copy Share Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through… — Larry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes.… — Sinclair Dumontais Copy Share Image
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers… — Jeff Brown Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings... I tried… — John Gorka Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“To he "over-choiced" with thirty different kinds of bread does indeed develop the shopper's awareness of differentiation and sense of taste. However,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Lizabeth Cohen defines the postwar equation of citizenship and consumerism as the emergence of a "consumer's republic" in which consumerism, rather than… — Marita Sturken Copy Share Image
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“...What is the key word today? Disposable. The more you can throw it away the more it’s beautiful. The car, the furniture,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only dust and bits of gold Rolex… — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
