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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. -- Ben Nicholson
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. -- Trevor Dunn
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. -- Christopher Lasch
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. -- Edward Bond
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
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message. -- Christian Bale
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. -- Henry Rollins
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general. -- Pink
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. -- J. G. Ballard
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids. -- Caroline Knapp
Consumerism is our national religion. -- Jennifer Stone
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. -- Paul Eldridge
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. -- John Ruskin
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism. -- Harry Hay
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really -- Emma Thompson
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton. -- Geoffrey Miller
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth. -- Thomas Carlyle
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. -- Philip Slater
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. -- Christopher Lasch
Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry. -- Pope Francis
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Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. -- Pope Francis
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. -- Christopher Lasch
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
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There's Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there's Feminism and Hedonism, and there's Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me. -- Tony Hoagland
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. -- Brennan Manning
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. -- Wim Wenders
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. -- J. G. Ballard
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra... -- Chuck Palahniuk
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly. -- Aloe Blacc
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. -- Noam Chomsky
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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
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. -- Fulton J. Sheen
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... -- Ellen Willis
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really. -- Emma Thompson
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. -- Bryant H. McGill
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry. -- Bill Bryson
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. -- John Lydon
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. -- Jeff Bezos
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. -- Annie Lennox
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. -- Tim Jackson
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. -- Aloe Blacc
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness. -- Richard Rohr
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. -- Ellen Willis
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself. -- Jay Griffiths
I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. -- Macklemore
As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. -- Patrick Stump
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. -- Frank Rich
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world. -- Alexander Payne
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor. -- Richard Rohr
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy. -- Natalie Portman
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. -- John Elkington
Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. -- David Shi
Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now. -- Giovanna Cau
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The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. -- Vandana Shiva
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. -- James Rosen
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy. -- Russell Brand
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. -- Pierre Dukan
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally. -- James Gustave Speth
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top -- Sarah Vowell
Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. -- Tom Hayden
I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. -- Terry Tempest Williams
You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you? -- Terry Pratchett
I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite -- Rob Hopkins
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism. -- Okky Madasari
... 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
Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism. -- Pope John Paul II
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs. -- Tariq Ramadan
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last,' -- Vivienne Westwood
It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal. -- Fareed Zakaria
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons. -- Stephanie Mills
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism. -- Bruce Feiler
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism. -- Armond White
Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism. -- Pope John Paul II
Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive. -- Tariq Ramadan
The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks. -- Mike Horn
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. -- Bill Watterson
People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world. -- Sylvia Boorstein
There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be. -- J. G. Ballard
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it. -- Thomas Sowell
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. -- Pankaj Mishra
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. -- Zoltan Istvan
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell -- Vandana Shiva
Everything is about consumerism. If there's money to be made, there will be an audience and people will feel empowered and I truly believe that women haven't fully tapped into their potential as a market. -- Rashida Jones

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