Overconsumption Quotes

119 quotes by 87 authors

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. — Winston Churchill
Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will… — John of the Cross
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly… — Brian D. McLaren
American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in… — Kalle Lasn
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even… — Ronald J. Sider
Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime… — Bob Dylan
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating… — Fulton J. Sheen
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it… — Pope John Paul II
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. — Saint Augustine
And I encourage you all to go shopping more — George W. Bush
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… — Vance Packard
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more. — Horace
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get… — Rebecca Solnit
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge

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