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
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe… — William Henry Willimon 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
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
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
Heaven help a timid child in a trendy tide He really doesn't know That his heart's being taken for a ride Doing… — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Consumer sales depend on the habits and behaviors of consumers, and those who manipulate consumer markets cannot but address behavior and attitude.… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and for each other. It is either that or continue merely to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why… — Ambrose 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
[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn 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
Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake… — Thomas Merton 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
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem… — Wendell Berry 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
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