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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
~consumerism society quotes by John Berger
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mad Magazine
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
~consumerism quotes by Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
~consumerism sayings by Paul Heyne
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~consumerism society quotes by Unknown
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
~consumerism quotes by Kin Hubbard
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
~consumerism sayings by Richard Bach
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~consumerism society quotes by Edward Abbey
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
~inspirational sayings about Consumerism quotes by Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~consumerism quotes by William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
~famous quotes about Consumerism by Author Unknown
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
~consumerism sayings by Henry David Thoreau
For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
~consumerism society quotes by Jay Leno
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.
~good sayings about Hypocrisy by Thomas à Kempis
To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.
~consumerism quotes by Author Unknown
I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
~motivational quotes about Sports sayings by Katharine Whitehorn
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.
~consumerism sayings by Cecil Selig
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
~consumerism society quotes by Djuna Barnes
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.
~good sayings about Caffeine by Alexander King
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
~consumerism quotes by Quentin Crisp
All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.
~motivational quotes about Religion sayings by Frederick the Great
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry
~consumerism sayings by Author Unknown
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
~consumerism society quotes by Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
~good sayings about People by W. Somerset Maugham
Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
~consumerism quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
~motivational quotes about Daydreaming sayings by Steven Wright
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
~consumerism sayings by Calvin and Hobbes
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
~consumerism society quotes by William H. Walton
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism
~good sayings about Independence Day by J. Horace McFarland
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
~consumerism quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
~motivational quotes about Self-Discovery sayings by George Eliot
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
~consumerism sayings by Grace Hopper
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