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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell
We were elevating our quality of life to the detriment of our integrity.
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
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The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Kin Hubbard
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
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Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
Saint Basil
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Thomas Carlyle
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No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
Joy Davidman
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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
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Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
James Gustave Speth
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He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
Josemaria Escriva
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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Jeff Bezos
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I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
Harry Hay
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I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.
John Elkington
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
Emma Thompson
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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Christopher Lasch
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ben Nicholson
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Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
Anita Roddick
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I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
Geoffrey Miller
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We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
Russell Brand
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Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
Pope Paul VI
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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill Bryson
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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
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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
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Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Henry Rollins
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As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
Horace
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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Mark Twain
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We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
George Eliot
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What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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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
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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.
John Kenneth Galbraith