Consumerism Quotes

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

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

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

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

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

Consumerism is our national religion.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

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

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

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

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

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

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

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

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

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

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

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

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

The god of the world's leading religion.

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.

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

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

And I encourage you all to go shopping more

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

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.

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.

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.

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