Consumerism Quote by Emile Gauvreau

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't…

— Emile Henry Gauvreau

“People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.”

— Clive Hamilton

“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they…

— Anonymous

“People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.”

— Paul A.M. Dirac

“They all want to be rich, same as we do, but they do not admit to themselves that you only get rich by taking…

— Philipp Meyer

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to…

— Jeff Yeager

“There are two types of people in this world: those who find money on the ground, and those that drop it. You are one…

— R. M. Grace

“In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate…

— Oscar Wilde

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“But, alas, this wealth, instead of blessing the race, has been the means of enslaving it. The few have come in possession of all,…

— Eugene V. Debs

“The only people to whom a lifestyle comes naturally are the very rich or the exceptionally famous. Everyone else is just trying to hardscrabble…

— Chelsea G. Summers