Consumerism Quotes

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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world.

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.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Consumerism is our national religion.

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...

We no longer live life. We consume it.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

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 makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

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 the very conditions we need to survive.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.