Consumerism Quotes
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
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 is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
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.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
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.
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.
The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.
Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.
Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.
Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.
