Capitalist Quote by Cornel West

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

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

— Susie Orbach

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

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

— Edmund Burke

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom…

— Clive Hamilton

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

— Max Lerner

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or…

— C. S. Lewis

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

— Aloe Blacc