Consumerism Quotes

212 Consumerism quotes by 162 unique authors

Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the… — Thomas Merton
Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin'… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to… — Samuel Johnson
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For why, my brothers and sisters, would you rejoice in silver? Either your silver will perish, or you will, and no one knows which will… — Saint Augustine
Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we… — Madeleine L'Engle
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and… — Geoffrey Chaucer
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little… — John the Apostle
However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found… — Wendell Berry
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now spreading. It is… — Pope Francis
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be… — Paul Brand
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as… — Erich Fromm
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These… — Stuart L. Hart
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and… — Charles Spurgeon
That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,… — Samuel Johnson
The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For… — Stuart L. Hart
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,… — Wendell Berry
To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption;… — Jacques Ellul
Too many commercials, too many lies Too many celebrities I don't recognize Too many brand names, too many magazines I got so much sensation, I… — Fred Small
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of… — Leonard Sweet
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose… — Sadhu Sundar Singh

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