Consumerism Quotes

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through ...

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she ...

How is it that when we see politics permeate every life sector we call it totalitarianism and when w...

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, d...

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to...

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfi...

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

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse g...

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit....

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenien...

I apologize to my priestess. I underestimated her. I equated her with the global media, which is whe...

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer c...

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finish...

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supe...

In many cases you are not buying a product but an “identity enhancer.” Designer labels are primarily...

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through thi...

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscov...

We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We li...

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent —...

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which i...

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You d...

And that discovery would betray the closely guarded secret of modern culture to the laughter of the ...

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whethe...

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political...

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash...

Escape is a commodity like anything else

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the pr...

The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can atta...

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more...

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indiffere...

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow ...

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ...

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot sp...

Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth'...

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal n...

It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not...

A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not consci...

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a cr...

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant c...

It's simple,' Kat told them. 'You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make th...

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our c...

So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control...

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to...

If you’ve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed ...

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which i...

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and veg...

Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral cons...

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea,...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but ...

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create yo...

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think th...

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence ...

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relatio...

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appre...

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the co...