Consumer culture Quote by Fatos Goksen

“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.”

— Bryant McGill

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the…

— Max Weber

“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when people use…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks,…

— Fazlur Rahman

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and…

— Albert Einstein

One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical…

— C.G. Jung

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of…

— Alan Huffman

“I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is…

— Immanuel Kant

“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and…

— Matthew Fox

“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them…

— Lionel Shriver

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising…

— Steven Pressfield