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“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the rights to…

— Elizabeth Willard Thames

“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as a producer…

— Walter Brueggemann

“It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication--that is, the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of us are…

— Naomi Klein

“For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.”

— Mark Edmundson

“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.”

— J. Andrew Schrecker

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.”

— Seth Godin

“Why sit and stare at a box beaming messages indoctrinating us into consumer culture for hours a day when there are so many more…

— Annie Leonard

“We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our…

— Clive Hamilton

“Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to…

— Matt Haig