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.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

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

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

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

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

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

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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