Consumerism Quote by Timothy Morton Download Open image “Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.” — Timothy Morton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Ecological Peril Thought
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. — Jean Claude Copy Share Image
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
As consumers, we need to demand that companies sell us sustainable products that do not disregard and destroy our natural world. — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction. — Pope Francis 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
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I've also been documenting an unsustainable way of life. And you see in peoples' stories that this world of consumerism does not support the… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. — Timothy Morton 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
