Quotes on consumerism
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Abbey, Edward
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Howard, Vernon
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.
Unknown, Author
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
Unknown, Author
In the United States, Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Bach, Richard
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
McLaughlin, Mignon
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
Hubbard, Frank McKinney
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Gandhi, Mohandas K.
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
White, E. B.
There must be more to life than having everything!
Sendak, Maurice
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.
Berger, John
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Hoffer, Eric
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.
Heyne, Paul
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.
Unknown, Author
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.
Tilgher, Adriano