Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.
We no longer live life. We consume it.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
And I encourage you all to go shopping more
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
. . . 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 get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
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.
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.