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Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
We no longer live life. We consume it.
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
The god of the world's leading religion.
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
And I encourage you all to go shopping more
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.
These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.
Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.
We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.