Capitalism Quote by Pope Francis

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now spreading. It…

— Pope Francis

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one…

— Pope Francis

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it…

— Lobsang Tenzin

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

— Karl Kraus

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example,…

— Pope Francis

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and…

— Joey Skaggs

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find…

— Stuart Ewen

“It is only through difference that progress can be made. What threatens us right now is probably what we may call over-communication--that is, the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount…

— Karl Polanyi

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able…

— Pope Francis