Commercialism Quotes

• Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Useless Stuff, Time Management

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• There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

  George Seaton

  Floating, Isms, World

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• Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Too Much, Way

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• When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Success, Creativity, Men

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• Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Holiday, Past, People

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• The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Lying, Hero

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

  Alex North

  Art, People, Film Music

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• My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Mother, Sick, Poverty

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• Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

  Frank Zappa

  Art, Moving, Weaponry

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• I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

  Larry Norman

  Fighting, Careers, Ministry

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• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  Zhang Yimou

  Plot, Stories, Elements

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• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

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• What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

  Linus Torvalds

  Issues, Use, Packaging

  "Linux's Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.drdobbs.com. January 1, 2002.

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• HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

  Zhang Yimou

  Hero, Feelings, Combination

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• Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Sound, Use

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• I'm totally anti-commercialism.

  David Fincher

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

  John Muir

  Heart, Men, People

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing

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• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Art, Creativity

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• The art world was very small and the people got together at parties. There was less commercialism.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, People, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will hook them in there. It's undoubtedly done a great deal toward getting a lot more people involved in spiritual life.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Want Something, People

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• We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Country, Thinking, Average

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• The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

  Herbert Schiller

  Growing Up, Impact, Keys

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• The commercialism may wash off sometime later.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  May

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• Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and more of those pictures. It's almost like everybody deserves a book about themselves, and everybody deserves a whole issue of Vice magazine devoted to them.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Book, Realness, Deserve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Intellectual, Amusement, Demand

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.238, Jazzybee Verlag

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