Best 279 quotes in «consumerism quotes» category

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

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

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

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

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

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

Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.

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.

Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

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

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

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

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

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.

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

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

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not conscience in the sense in which any moralist, pagan or Christian, has every understood the term. And the family (which [Michael] Novak regards as vital to the spirit of democratic capitalism) is precisely the place where the noncapitalist values have to be learned, where one is not free to choose his company and where one is not free to pursue self-interest to the limit. Because capitalism pursues the opposite goals - freedom of each individual to choose and pursue his own ends to the limit of his power - the disintegration of marriage and family life is one of the obvious characteristics of advanced capitalist societies.

A customer facing crucial decisions: What should I wipe myself with? What should I brush with? His personal hygiene was deteriorating rapidly as he stared at the rows of possibilities, sweating profusely. Would he ever bathe again?

Activity, effort, achievement, or service outside a hierarchical relationship and unmeasured by professional standards, threatens a commodity-intensive society.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

Alberta's two largest cities collected more in library fines than two higher levels of government levied against polluters in 2006-2007.

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.