He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.
We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.
. . . There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end. . . Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
For me what was amazing was consumerism of people survived after Katrina. You see in a yard that the SUV is gone but they left the Ferrari or the more expensive car because it just wasn't practical. They couldn't get all their stuff in it. So you see this beautiful car totally destroyed; motorcycles. You walk into these houses - we were with the New Orleans police when they would go into the houses - we'd go through these houses and we were just amazed at how much stuff that had been accumulated and how much was left behind.
Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.
What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.