Conspicuous consumption Quote by Erik Pevernagie

“The refusal to change by clinging onto superficial material wealth at any cost today, is a certain sentence of death tomorrow for all future…

— Alastair Agutter

“By the time we came to understand the consequences of our revised patterns of consumption, the damage had been done to our waistline, longevity,…

— Franklin Foer

“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

“I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that economic machine,…

— Charles Bowden

“Even when the underlying motive of purchase is mere speculative greed, human nature desires to conceal this unlovely impulse behind a screen of apparent…

— Benjamin Graham

“We often destroy the world’s real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.”

— Susan Wiggs

“Sometimes the mind is cruel: it tells us we are worth no more than our possessions, and that without them we would be nothing.…

— Victoria Finlay

“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We pretend not…

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going out of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“We come into this world priceless, with no value befitting our precious tiny frame. As we grow older we begin to assign value to…

— Solomon Woytowich

“Most people lose the only thing they possess—Life—while acquiring the many things that will finally never be theirs.-RVM”

— RVM