The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning 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
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. — Robert Wuthnow 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
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
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they… — Aristotle 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
Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless… — Joy Davidman 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
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
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
Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant… — John of the Cross 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
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx 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
