Consumerism Quote by Caroline Knapp Download Open image “Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.” — Caroline Knapp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Emotional Thrive Void
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill 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
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Life had this unmoored quality, full of voids and barely acknowledged yearnings, and if I'd made a list of things I wanted desperately at… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington 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 couldn't accomplish… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they… — Sinclair Dumontais Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
