Buying Quote by Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole…

— Cornel West

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get…

— Oscar Wilde

Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor,…

— Tana French

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be…

— Cornel West

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create…

— Marva Dawn

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

— Susie Orbach

“Meanwhile, the must-haves we're encouraged to lust over bombard us from every direction. Jewellery. Clothes. Technology. Cars. In pursuit of them, the reasons for…

— Gabriella Bennett

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Many people are obsessed with the idea that everything has to be perfect or immediately accessible, so it’s easy to fall in the trap…

— S.J. Scott

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

— Brad Pitt

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we…

— Richard J. Foster

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

— Max Lerner