395 Quotes About Consumerism

Live from abundance;Utilize with economy;Share in advance.

In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?

If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more: more intensity, more variety, more stimulation. We seek instant gratification and are increasingly intolerant of any frustration. Nowhere are we encouraged to be satisfied with what we have, to think, "this is good. This is enough.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

[T]here is now a void at the heart of everything. But then there is so much more of everything now!