Consumerism Quotes

212 Consumerism quotes by 162 unique authors

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the… — Winona LaDuke
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied… — Hu Shih
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not… — Jim Wallis
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never… — William Gurnall
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken. We don't manufacture… — Joe Bageant
The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies. — Walter Weyl
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing… — Barbara Kingsolver
There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary… — Wendell Berry
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants. — E. Stanley Jones
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. — Aesop
This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but… — Rick Warren
This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are… — Dorothy Day
So here we are in a country with more wheat and corn and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world-there's… — Will Rogers
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we… — Will Rogers
Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now. — Giovanna Cau
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. — Trevor Dunn
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of… — Christopher Lasch
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. — Christopher Lasch
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. — Christopher Lasch
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. — Annie Lennox
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon

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