Consumerism Quotes - Page 3

• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

  John Ruskin

  Workout, Simplicity, Possession

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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• The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

  Vandana Shiva

  Joy, Ends, Accumulation

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• Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

  David Shi

  Simple, Addiction, Inner Peace

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• One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'

  Doug Pagitt

  Religious, Offering, America

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• Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

  Giovanna Cau

  Children, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Social, Flawed

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

  Caroline Knapp

  Emotional, Void, Thrive

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

  Trevor Dunn

  Marketing, Demand, Depth

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• Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Men, Circles

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.599, Read Books Ltd

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

  Pope Francis

  Waste, Stealing, Hungry

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• What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

  Christopher Lasch

  Loyalty, Different, Logic

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• Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

  Edward Bond

  Democracy, Literature, Violence

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• It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to the accumulation of goods, that material poverty became a major problem. Obviously, this meant abandonment or downgrading of spiritual values, virtue, etc. To share or not to share in the increase of the collective wealth-this was the Number One question. It was the desire to acquire wealth that prompted the poor to start fighting.

  Jacques Ellul

  Spiritual, Fighting, Numbers

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• Do not let your "eye" be drawn by the false "beacon lamps" -of wealth, or position, or fame, or possessions. Be vigilant over your will and desires, for these are the corrupt forces that dwell within, and keep you from living free.

  John of the Cross

  Eye, Over You, Desire

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• What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Artist, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

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

  Philip Slater

  Emotional, Needs, Deprivation

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity...

  Manfred Max Neef

  Humanity, Needs, Fundamentals

  Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1983.

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• Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

  Wes Jackson

  Strong, Home, Responsibility

  Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Misery, Cold

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• The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

  Ben Nicholson

  Soul, Corruption

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• The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, People, Bored

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• Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

  Paul Eldridge

  Gold, Avarice

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• When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Differences, Limits

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