Free consumerism sayings, quotes and quotations
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 society 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
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.
~consumerism quotes 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.
~famous quotes about Consumerism 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 sayings 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.
~consumerism society 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.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
~consumerism quotes by Kin Hubbard
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
~famous quotes about Consumerism 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 sayings by Richard Bach
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~consumerism society quotes by Edward Abbey
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~consumerism quotes by William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by Author Unknown
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
~consumerism sayings by Henry David Thoreau
You should have ten penthouses in ten Park Avenue buildings and in each one you should have a gorgeous blonde waiting to do your every wish and in front of each of these ten buildings you should have a Rolls Royce with a chauffeur and every morning you should get into each car and your chauffeur should drive you to a different doctor and not one doctor should know what's wrong with you
~consumerism society quotes by Yiddish Curse
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~good sayings about Happiness by Marcel Proust
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~consumerism quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
~motivational quotes about Self sayings by Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves
~consumerism sayings by John Bulwer
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~consumerism society quotes by Mark Twain
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
~good sayings about Sports by Robert Lynd
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
~consumerism quotes by Oscar Wilde
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
~motivational quotes about Self sayings by The Sickness Unto Death
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
~consumerism sayings by John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
~consumerism society quotes by Isak Dinesen
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~good sayings about Science by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
~consumerism quotes by Russell P. Askue
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
~motivational quotes about Hate sayings by Karl Kraus
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.
~consumerism sayings by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Remember: I before E, except in Budweiser.
~consumerism society quotes by Author Unknown
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
~good sayings about Conformity by Foe Ancis
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
~consumerism quotes by Eric Hoffer
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.
~motivational quotes about Walking sayings by Amy Yasbeck
My mother said to me 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
~consumerism sayings by Pablo Picasso
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