The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.
Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
And I encourage you all to go shopping more
Consumerism is our national religion.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
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.
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
The god of the world's leading religion.
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.