A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
“overall, the populist orientation of Evangelical cultural production reflects the most kitschy expressions of consumerism” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“The often repeated delight that families express in recognizing and experiencing togetherness is wholly contained by the way the pleasure of a… — Susan Willis Copy Share Image
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not… — Heather Bresch Copy Share Image
“Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires.” — L G Durand Copy Share Image
... the aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only… — Manfred Max Neef Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level… — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“had failed to learn the value of money and how to work for it. And in a Center for a New American… — Richard Bromfield Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Well, in our society, we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can't get involved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Great marketers see potential customers as real people. They create campaigns that appeal to their, wants, needs and desires.” — Stacey Kehoe Copy Share Image
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. — Aesop Copy Share Image
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough. — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
