Consumerism Quote by Iain M. Banks Download Open image ““Escape is a commodity like anything else”” — Iain M. Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Escape
“escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we are. It's… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
“one’s innate desire for escape.’ Everyone needs to escape, don’t they? In one way or another, I mean.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the… — Kristin Kimball Copy Share Image
“Not a single person has ever escaped?" "Only if you count death as an escape.” — Aria Kane Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future success. But… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the various strata… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“he saw that which cannot be seen; a concept; the adaptive, self-seeking urge to survive, to bend everything that can be reached to that… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Tell me, what is happiness?” “Happiness? Happiness... is to wake up, on a bright spring morning, after an exhausting first night spent with a… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they… — Sinclair Dumontais Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
