Consumerism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Consumerism.
Top Quotes
“Materialism”
“Consumption (economics)”
“How many things I can do without!”
“He who knows he has enough is rich”
“Man derives pleasure while acquiring gain.”
“… the consumerist pornography of advertising”
“Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.”
“Satiety is generated by wealth, and insolence by satiety.”
“America’s central organizing principle is thoughtless consumption.”
“Eat and drink, but waste not by excess; verily He loves not the excessive.”
“Wikipedia: Consumerism”
“Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?”
“Those who buy things out of season, at an extravagant price, expect never to live till the proper season for them.”
“Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.”
“As GDP (gross domestic product, the standard measure of the wealth of a country and its inhabitants) increases, calorie consumption also increases. As we get richer (or suffer less poverty), we consume more food.”
“We all are a product of our times where new, shiny, better, and "more, more, more" seem normal, but that’s only a reflection of the abnormal period of the last century or so, as we spend down our earthly inheritance.”
“… our current prosperity could be that we entered a period of prosperity due to the easy abundance of fossil fuels and the scarcity imposed upon us by their end could play out similar to the scarcity imposed by the onset of colder weather at the end of the high middle ages.”
“Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.”
“The behavioral changes that are required of us are so fundamental that no one wants to make them. What are they? We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, and less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile-phone upgrades. Far fewer. Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.”