Consumerism! Strange? , No it’s not, it’s a collection of sayings and Consumerism Quotes with us by a group of writers, between your hands in one page.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~ Vernon Howard
Who covets more, is evermore a slave. ~ Robert Herrick
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. ~ Environmental Defense Fund advertisement, Christian Science Monitor, 1990
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ~ Francis H. Bradley
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. ~ John Berger
Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated. ~ Author Unknown
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. ~ Channing E. Phillips – speech, Washington, D.C., 1970 April 22nd
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. ~ Dave Barry
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~ William Ruckelshaus – Business Week, 1990 June 18th
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. ~ Adriano Tilgher
How do you take a medium seriously when it is so laced with high decibel reminders to run right out to your supermarket, your drug store, your friendly car dealer, your favorite department store and buy…. That’s the twentieth century marching song — buy! ~ Rod Serling – speech at second district AAF meeting, quoted in Media Decisions, vol. 9, part 1, 1974
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~ Author Unknown
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~ Edward Abbey
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. ~ Adriano Tilgher
Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t. ~ Mignon McLaughlin – The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. ~ Paul Eldridge
After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~ Pam Shaw