Quotes on consumerism
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Vernon Howard Quotes
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
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Author Unknown Quotes
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
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In the United States, Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
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Richard Bach Quotes
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.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.
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Adriano Tilgher Quotes
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Who covets more, is evermore a slave.
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Robert Herrick Quotes
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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E. B. White Quotes
There must be more to life than having everything!
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Maurice Sendak Quotes
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.
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John Berger Quotes
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
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.
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Paul Heyne Quotes
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.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.
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Adriano Tilgher Quotes