Best 279 quotes in «consumerism quotes» category

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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

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

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

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

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

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

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.

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

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.

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

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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