Consumerism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
-- Ben Nicholson -
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
-- Geoffrey Miller -
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
-- George Eliot -
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
-- Harry Hay -
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
-- Jeff Bezos -
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
-- John Ruskin -
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
-- Josemaria Escriva -
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
-- Joy Davidman -
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
-- Lorne Michaels -
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
-- Saint Basil -
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
-- Winston Churchill -
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
-- James Gustave Speth -
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
-- Ida Tarbell -
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.
-- John Elkington -
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.
-- Yekaterina Samutsevich
