The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“When your underwear costs more than your child's education then you are in serious trouble" RjS” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Earn, consume, and enjoy life. Offend no one; don’t get offended. Don’t take sides; don’t take a stand. Don’t interfere; don’t get… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music,… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As I do my best to haggle down the prices further, Mr. Williams responds with a pained expression on his face, “Oh… — Simon Brass Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
“People are cast in the underclass because they are seen as totally useless; as a nuisance pure and simple, something the rest… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation… — Robert L. Hellbroner Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Tech companies used to invent solutions to end problems, now they invent problems to sell endless solutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
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