Care Quote by Rudolf Steiner

What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is…

— Bill Gross

We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must…

— Susan L. Taylor

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step…

— John Updike

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses…

— Rudolf Steiner

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

— Rudolf Steiner

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

— Jenna Wortham

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes…

— Michael Dean Crapo

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that…

— Ted Leo