Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Consumerism

• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

• What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Thieves, Consumerism

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

• High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Worship, Complicated

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.120, A&C Black

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