Quote by Juliet Schor

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,…

— Audre Lorde

“Consumption isn’t just about taking—it’s also about sharing, repurposing, and honoring the life cycle of the things we use.”

— Ken Breniman

“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

“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing world shall…

— Carlos Fuentes

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inability to overcome the sense of alienation…

— Cornel West

“Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”

— Bell Hooks

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless…

— Vironika Tugaleva

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved…

— Cheri Huber

“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has…

— Niall Ferguson

“I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human…

— Victoria Boutenko