Consumerism Quote by Russell Brand Download Open image “We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.” — Russell Brand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Knows
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill 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
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
People aren't happy unless they buy stuff, and that's because we have become this industrialized nation. — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of us are… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“I was already a weary connoisseur of my dad’s pornography and had begun to develop my almost supernatural ability for guessing women’s bra sizes.” — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“now believe addiction to be a calling. A blessing. I now hear a rhythm behind the beat, behind the scratching discordant sound of my… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to." — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Heres one for Russell; angels are seen unaware,, but people all around me see evil everyday clearly,, what does this say about what people… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's… — Russell Brand 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