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“Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.”

Culture Demand Depth Marketing Pops Consumerism Pop Culture Supply And Demand

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

Children Play Turns Tvs Anxiety Our Children Your Children Happy Life Consumerism Turn Off

Author:Pope Francis

“People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.”

People World Heart Important Realizing Unhappy Materialism Consumerism Happy Heart

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.”

“I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite”

World Stuff Growth Economic Opposites Frightened Not Afraid Consumerism Economic Growth

Author:Rob Hopkins

“I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell”

Needs Giving Hell Built Give Me Loved Ones Consumerism Living My Life

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'”

Men Writing Doe Reason Belief Break Economy Built Agree Conservative Socialism Live By Consumerism Breaking Down

Author:Paul Weyrich

“He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.”

Care Caring Riches Consumerism Poor Richard Overconsumption

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”

Poor Rich Asking Advertising More Money Consumerism Advertisements Overconsumption Asking For Money

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.”

Men Long Stills Earth Science Given Waste Forgotten Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption

Book:Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

“Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!”

Giving Should Wells Able Remember Used Values Poor Economic Food Waste Tables Mere Hunger Stealing Hungry Throwing Excess Consumerism Parameters

Author:Pope Francis

“If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.”

Ifs World Taken Masters Bears Crosses Goods Consumerism Pauses Overconsumption

Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.”

Poor Waste Stealing Hungry Throwing Consumerism Accustomed

Author:Pope Francis

“You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'”

Enough Happiness Simple Satisfaction Abundance Consumerism Oaks Great Happiness Simple Living Frugality Jeopardy Art Of Happiness Real Happiness Personal Happiness Mashed Potatoes Simple Happiness Small Simple

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.”

People Character Film Differences Messages Ethics Obsession Consumerism

Author:Christian Bale

“Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.”

Needs Doe Dear Consumerism Pennies Bargains Overconsumption Superfluous

Author:Plutarch

“It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about”

People Self Christian Difficult Religious Tasks Ministers Servant Ministry Consumerism Hearted Self Centered Robes Difficult Tasks Great Commission

Author:Rick Warren

“Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.”

Character My Favorite Destroyed Beach Consumerism Venice Berkeley Gentrification Aspens

Author:Tom Hayden

“There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.”

Force Religious Powerful West Consumerism

Author:Alan Hirsch

“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.'”

Ifs Thinking Wells Ideas Lasts Quality Aim Consumerism

Author:Vivienne Westwood

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

Hard Ocean Consumerism Plankton

Book:Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

Source: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.”

Poor Rich Achieve Enlightenment Busy Consumerism Too Busy Fridges Freezer

Author:Rajneesh

“One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.”

Impossible Color Credit Statements Length Consumerism Puzzles Without Love Refrigerators Crosswords

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.”

Two Together Two Things Consumerism Schmucks

Author:George Carlin

“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”

Gold Consumerism Avarice

Author:Paul Eldridge

“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.”

Individual Products Saving Consumerism Savings Consuming

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Thinking Desire Walks Streets Consumerism

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”

Ifs Men Way Want Littles Made Money Lord Wise Trouble Produce Treasure Rely Consumerism Filling Another Way Vacuums Overconsumption Rely Upon

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.”

Source: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

“Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something.”

Needs Emotional Consumerism Deprivation

Book:The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal

Source: The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal

“The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.”

Way May Persons Appreciate Consumerism Noticing

Author:Allison Pearson

“We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.”

Way Needs Giving Made Beautiful Sides Danger Objects Losing Commitment Propaganda Consumerism Furniture Carpet Impulsive Morocco

Author:Alain de Botton

“You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.”

Men Care Evil Causes Money Journey Seeds Consumerism Restless Nourishment Overconsumption Premature Sprouts Because Of You Premature Death

Author:Propertius

“True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.”

Happiness Virtue Flow Possession Goods Consumerism True Happiness Overconsumption

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.”

“In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.”

World Firsts Age America Film Industry Europe Criticism Consumerism Movie Industry Film Criticism

Author:Wim Wenders

“We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.”

Needs Desire Eras Consumerism

Author:Aloe Blacc

“I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.”

People Thinking Self Identity Tvs Development Reflection Capitalism Personal Development Consumerism Self Identity

Author:Aloe Blacc

“Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.”

People Humans Stills Spirit Language Worst Excess Consumerism Fence Human Spirit Stalinism

Author:Jay Griffiths

“Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.”

Should Wells Body Seems Pain Individual Understanding Natural Particular Products Healthy Perfection Green Notion Illness Lifestyle Well Being Consumerism Precise Norm Normality

Author:Peter Dickens

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