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  • In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.

    Real   Names   Squirrels  
  • Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  • My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

  • It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

    Son   Riches   Lifetime  
    Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.231, Catholic Way Publishing
  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

    Names   Giving   Needs  
    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”
  • I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

    Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear and violence. Such legitimation is largely provided through a market-driven culture addicted to the production of consumerism, militarism and organized violence, largely circulated through various registers of popular culture that extend from high fashion and Hollywood movies to the creation of violent video games and music concerts sponsored by the Pentagon.

    Fashion   War   Games  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  • You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

    Sleep   House   Greed  
  • Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know.

    Vacation   Mind   Cards  
    Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press
  • we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

    Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.318, Ravenio Books
  • Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

    Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970
  • We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

  • Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.

    Luxury   Numbers   People  
    Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.118, InterVarsity Press
  • I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

    Dream   Believe   Fall  
  • The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

    Appreciate   May   Way  
  • Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

    Running   Men   Thinking  
  • 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.

  • High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.120, A&C Black
  • This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

  • We no longer live life. We consume it.

    Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.41, Penguin
  • The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

    Hands   Class   Pressure  
  • 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.

  • The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

    Country   Goal   Mind  
  • There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

    Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon
  • Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

    Wise   World   Might  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.166, e-artnow
  • It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

  • Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not only is the market-place celebrated but an understanding of the 'natural body' itself becomes fetishised and idolised. Normality seems to have wholly dispensed with bodily illness and pain. Perfection is the norm, and one that can be gained through acquiring the correct products and perfecting the body.

  • But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

    Heart   Soul   Prosperity  
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