Consumerism Quote by Jennifer Stone Download Open image “Consumerism is our national religion.” — Jennifer Stone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Religion
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of biblical texts tell us that God still measures our societies by what we do to the poorest. Jesus’ words still remind those… — Al Kresta Copy Share Image
There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you… — Phillip Cary Copy Share Image
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does… — Michael J. White Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing.… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings. — Jennifer Stone 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
