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Consumerism Quotes by Vance Packard
- As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to…
- New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures…
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky
- We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. — Winston Churchill
- Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. — Edward Bond
- Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy… — Pope John Paul II
- We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really — Emma Thompson
- One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on… — Doug Pagitt
- Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination --… — Armond White
- Many ideas have struggled over the centuries to dominate the planet. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. Religion. But only one has achieved total supremacy.… — Jonathon Porritt
- The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis