Consumerism Quotes
+26After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
- Pam Shaw
+1The customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer based systems.
- Steve Cuthbert
+1Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner
+1Who covets more, is evermore a slave.
- Robert Herrick
+1A worker’s paradise is a consumer’s hell.
- Esther Dyson
+1There must be more to life than having everything!
- Maurice Sendak
+1The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
- Ben Nicholson
+1The god of the world’s leading religion.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop
+1The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
- Kin Hubbard
+1Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
+1Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
- Socrates
+1Whither thou goest, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
- Jack Kerouac
+1Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey
+1Batter strikeouts continue to go up like the Consumer Price Index.
- Leonard Robert Davids
+1We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
- Emma Thompson
+1Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
+1Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.
- Mignon McLaughlin
+1Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
- David Rose
+1And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows.
- Dick Wolf
+1You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
+1One of the weaknesses of our age is inability to distinguish needs from greeds.
- Don Robinson
+1The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
- Walter Weyl
+1The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell
+1To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
- E. B. White
+1Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
- Thomas Carlyle
+1Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.
- Michael Schudson
+1Pop culture is not about depth. It’s about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
- Trevor Dunn
+1My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can’t make your children carry.
- Bill Bryson
+1Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- Samuel Johnson
+1Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
- Herbert Hoover
+1The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self serving wealth.
- Franklin Delano
+1Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.
- Mimi Sheraton
+1Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
- Aesop
+1The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
- Christopher Lasch
+1It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
- Christopher Lasch
+1We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1I like to go to Marshall Field’s in Chicago just to see how many things there are in the world that I do not want.
- Mother Mary
+1Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’
- C.S. Lewis
