Overconsumption Quotes

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But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered… — Carl Jung
Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged… — Tracy Chapman
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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

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