“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.” KindLongSelfDreamCultureHouseExpressionConnectionsUltimateBe KindAmerican DreamConsumerism Author:Lauren Greenfield
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony” IfsMenLongDesireWishPoorEnemyTeachRichQuietPossessionEvery ManEnjoymentProportionDestructiveConsumerismOverconsumptionRich Or PoorEnlargementPatrimony Book:Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
“What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.” LittlesLongBitsLevelsTalkingComfortLittle BitLong TimeEndlessHeightClimbsExpensesConsumerismOverconsumptionElevationGullible Author:Bill McKibben
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” LongLeftCan DoPowerfulPleaseHatredPopulationVulnerableOutcomesContemplatingPassiveConsumerismApathetic Book:Who Rules the World? Source: Who Rules the World?