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• I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

  John Lydon

  Shopping, Culture, Tvs

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• In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Temptation, Might

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• Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

  James Gustave Speth

  Helping, Wells, Capitulation

  "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

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• 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.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Doe, Needs, Interest

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

  Russell Brand

  Knows

  "Russell Brand On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Ocean, Plankton, Hard

  Geoffrey Miller (2009). “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”, p.8, Penguin

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• My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

  Bill Bryson

  Children, Firsts, Your Children

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Money, Men

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• It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Time, Sustainable Energy, Firsts

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• It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Asking, Advertising, Rich

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• 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

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Revenge, Two, Arrogance

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• What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Giving, Wish

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.

  Mike Horn

  Daughter, Thinking, Two

  Source: nicksmithphoto.wordpress.com

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• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  Brennan Manning

  Vacation, Maturity, Years

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

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• Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Advice, Live Your Life

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.229, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Stanley Greene

  Beautiful, Car, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tunes, Want, Might

  Thomas Sowell (2010). “Basic Economics 4th Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy”, p.201, Basic Books

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Garden, Clothes

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)

  Confucius

  Heart, Gentleman, Meals

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• Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Revealing, Indicators

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• The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

  Sarah Vowell

  Aztec, Cacao, Cafes

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

  William James

  Fighting, Attachment, Athletic

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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