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Overconsumption 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…
More Overconsumption Quotes
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today — Jacques Yves Cousteau
- But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas
- How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet… — John the Apostle
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily… — Samuel Johnson
- To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in… — Wendell Berry
- We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just… — Eugenia Price