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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~consumerism quotes by John Berger
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mad Magazine
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~consumerism quotes by John Berger
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
~consumerism sayings by Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
~consumerism quotes by Paul Heyne
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Unknown
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
~consumerism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by Kin Hubbard
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
~consumerism sayings by From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
~consumerism quotes by Richard Bach
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Edward Abbey
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
~consumerism quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
~famous quotes about Environment by Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~consumerism sayings by William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did
~consumerism quotes by Malcolm Forbes
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirini-us was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn
~good sayings about Birth by Luke John
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
~consumerism quotes by Amos Bronson Alcott
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude
~motivational quotes about Veterans Day sayings by Cynthia Ozick
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
~consumerism sayings by W. Eugene Smith
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
~consumerism quotes by Sharon Olds, This Sporting Life, 1987
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
~good sayings about Memory by Austin O'Malley
Thanks to Amy for submitting many of these quotes!
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More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
~motivational quotes about Sisters sayings by Linda Sunshine
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. At least, as one man said, there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~consumerism sayings by Erwin N. Griswold
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~consumerism quotes by H. Jackson Browne
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.
~good sayings about Tennis by Eugene Scott
History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past.
~consumerism quotes by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.
~motivational quotes about Weather sayings by Author Unknown
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
~consumerism sayings by Brian Aldiss
With just enough learning to misquote.
~consumerism quotes by George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
~good sayings about Poetry by Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985
Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day.
~consumerism quotes by Author Unknown
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.
~motivational quotes about Reality sayings by B. Quilliam
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
~consumerism sayings by Romain Rolland, Nobel Prize 1915
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