“Live from abundance; Utilize with economy; Share in advance.” — Geoffrey M. Gluckman Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.” — John Powell Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If i bought something that didn't warrant more than three wearings, I did not need it.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about… — Armond White Copy Share Image
We're so used to Christmas being absconded by commercial endeavors and consumerism and all of those aspects of the holiday that have… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
“All-access consumerism is likely finished... This is a permanent change for Americans, who will face a declining standard of living over the… — Gordon Laird Copy Share Image
“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you… — Susan Freinkel Copy Share Image
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Recycling is better--I won't write "good"--for the environment. But without economics--without supply and demand of raw materials--recycling is nothing more than a… — Adam Minter Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for confronting consumption. Not only are ecological problems like climate change more pressing than ever, consumerism has lost… — John C. Ryan Copy Share Image
“An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
