Availability Quote by Pope John Paul II

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

— David Hume

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

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

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

...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never…

— Brian D. McLaren

Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will…

— Richard J. Foster

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of…

— Lesslie Newbigin

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A…

— Pope John Paul II

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

— Max Lerner

The goods of creation belong to humanity as a whole. Yet the current pace of environmental exploitation is seriously endangering the supply of certain…

— Pope Benedict XVI