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Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. — Trevor Dunn

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue

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

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. — Henry Rollins

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy. — Russell Brand

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors — Nouman Ali Khan

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids. — Caroline Knapp

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson

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

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't. — Mignon McLaughlin

If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished. — David Mitchell

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

When you own a lot of rubbish, it's tough to simplify your life. — Leon Logothetis

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. — Christopher Lasch

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel. — Lorne Michaels

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets — Aneurin Bevan

Consumerism provides no psychological satisfaction, because there is no limit to our desires for things that we never needed in the first place. — Emily Wilson

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. — Bill Bryson

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. — Christopher Lasch

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. — Swedish Proverb

Marketing's illusive promise is that this one product will change your life, make you feel more sexy, satisfy all your heart's desires. — L.G. Durand

In my view, dissatisfaction is implicit in the fabric of consumerism. — Dave Bruno

Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological: — Michael S. Horton

I give people credit for buying into consumerism — John Green

[T]he need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself. — Erich Fromm

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street. — Susan Ee

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. — Saint Augustine

Live from abundance;
Utilize with economy;
Share in advance. — Geoffrey M. Gluckman

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,' — Vivienne Westwood

The pervasive digitalization or IT consumerism requires the balance of the "old experience" and the "new way to do things," the "learning and doing. — Pearl Zhu

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force — Angela Carter

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. — Geoffrey Miller

Materialism and consumerism are merely emergent properties of our neurobiology given free rein in a free market. — Piers Steel

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

The Master said, If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. — Confucius

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed. — Bryant McGill

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. — Vicki Robin

Bottled water is a triumph of modern consumerism and marketing. — Ian Bradley

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more. — Horace

Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode. — J.G. Ballard

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

Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume. — Pete Sanders

The god of the world's leading religion. — Ambrose Bierce

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? — Terry Pratchett

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. — Kenan Malik

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip. — Don DeLillo

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

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. — Steven Pressfield

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers. — Vicki Robin

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

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill

The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross, — Morris Berman

You feel strangely empowered when you realize that most of what you're told matters, only matters to those trying to sell you shit. — Russell Blake

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. — Saint Basil

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like. — Clive Hamilton

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are. — S. Kelley Harrell

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences — Piero Scaruffi

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. — Emma Thompson

We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment. — Gary Hopkins

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

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

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. — Native American Saying

A broke man's lover doesn't feel 'loved' on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine's Day. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. — Alan Hirsch

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that. — Joshua Becker

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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. — Pope John Paul II

Little people doing little things in little places everywhere can change the world. — Anwar Fazal

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. — Paul McCartney

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

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. — Pope Francis

Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers. — Madeleine L'Engle

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. — Annie Lennox

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. — Tariq Ramadan

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. — Pierre Dukan

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. — Charles Stross

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. — Ben Nicholson

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism. — Okky Madasari

Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed. — Philip K. Dick

Ambition' is 'greed' rebranded. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success. — Kanye West

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism. — Charles Baxter

Ambition is greed without makeup. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We no longer live life. We consume it. — Vicki Robin

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

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism. — Pope John Paul II

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. — Vandana Shiva

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life. — Mark Sundeen

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. — Robert Wringham

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. — Paul Eldridge