Best 279 quotes in «consumerism quotes» category

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but at home. A curious condition of a republic based roughly on the original Roman model is that it cannot allow true political parties to share in government. What then is a true political party: one that is based firmly in the interest of a class be it workers or fox hunters. Officially we have two parties which are in fact wings of a common party of property with two right wings. Corporate wealth finances each. Since the property party controls every aspect of media they have had decades to create a false reality for a citizenry largely uneducated by public schools that teach conformity with an occasional advanced degree in consumerism.

With the hollowing out of community by the market system, with its loss of structure, articulation, and form, comes the concomitant hollowing out of personality itself. Just as the spiritual and institutional ties that linked human beings together into vibrant social relations are eroded by the mass market, so the sinews that make for subjectivity, character, and self-definition are divested of form and meaning. The isolated, seemingly autonomous ego that bourgeois society celebrated as the highest achievement of "modernity" turns out to be the mere husk of a once fairly rounded individual whose very completeness as an ego was responsible because he or she was rooted in a fairly rounded and complete community.

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of "work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

Your brain feels good to look at something at a distance, but the moment you receive it, that's it - in a short while your brain gets used to that specific trigger of possessing that specific object, then it keeps craving for a new trigger - new stimulant, and if you do not give your brain that specific new trigger, your brain will rebel against you, in the same way as an addict's brain rebels against the person.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

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

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

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

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.

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

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

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

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

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.

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

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 think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

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

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.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

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