Best 279 quotes in «consumerism quotes» category

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

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.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

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.

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

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

a perfect description of the “automatic cultural man”—man as confined by culture, a slave to it, who imagines that he has an identity if he pays his insurance premium, that he has control of his life if he guns his sports car or works his electric toothbrush. Today the inauthentic or immediate men are familiar types, after decades of Marxist and existentialist analysis of man’s slavery to his social system. But in Kierkegaard’s time it must have been a shock to be a modern European city-dweller and be considered a Philistine at the same time. For Kierkegaard “philistinism” was triviality, man lulled by the daily routines of his society, content with the satisfactions that it offers him: in today’s world the car, the shopping center, the two-week summer vacation. Man is protected by the secure and limited alternatives his society offers him, and if he does not look up from his path he can live out his life with a certain dull security: Devoid of imagination, as the Philistine always is, he lives in a certain trivial province of experience as to how things go, what is possible, what usually occurs… . Philistinism tranquilizes itself in the trivial…

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

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

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.

American consumers benefit from disparity & exploitation. I benefit from disparity & exploitation & so does my family. there is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain" --casey gray - author of Discount - & my New HERO

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They say ‘Consumerism’.