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