395 Quotes About Consumerism

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.One of my favorite quotes is by Robert Farrar Capon when he says we are given appetites, not to consume the world, but to taste its goodness.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

The development of productive technologies offered western society a choice: to have more leisure time, or to increase the production and consumption of consumer goods. Capitalism took us down the latter path, and the Utopian dream of ease and leisure for all was buried under a mountain of commodities. [ch.three]

The second best thing to not chasing success is chasing success that was defined by you, not for you.

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.

When your underwear costs more than your child's education then you are in serious trouble"RjS

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

The thing whose acquisition ‘made’ you happy need not be stolen, lost, or broken for ‘it’ to make you unhappy.