Consumerism Quotes

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

Consumerism is our national religion.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

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

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

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

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

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