Overconsumption Quotes

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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
We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money… — Eugenia Price
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are… — Nhat Hanh
We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The… — Walter Weyl
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be… — Neil Postman
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the… — Pope Francis
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as… — Barbara Kingsolver
We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may… — Bill McKibben
These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme. — Mark Twain
What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all… — Bill McKibben
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to… — Ambrose
When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything… — Bill Gates
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference… — Wendell Berry

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