Consumerism Quotes

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After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.
- Pam Shaw

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner

Who covets more, is evermore a slave.
- Robert Herrick

A worker’s paradise is a consumer’s hell.
- Esther Dyson

There must be more to life than having everything!
- Maurice Sendak

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
- Ben Nicholson

The god of the world’s leading religion.
- Ambrose Bierce

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop

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The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
- Kin Hubbard

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
- Socrates

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Whither thou goest, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
- Jack Kerouac

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey

Batter strikeouts continue to go up like the Consumer Price Index.
- Leonard Robert Davids

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
- Emma Thompson

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.
- David Milne

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.
- David Rose

And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows.
- Dick Wolf

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard

One of the weaknesses of our age is inability to distinguish needs from greeds.
- Don Robinson

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.
- Walter Weyl

The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- George Orwell

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
- E. B. White

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