395 Quotes About Consumerism

The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

Purpose driven technology will continue to flourish, whereas profit driven technology will either perish or destroy the world.

Obsession over possession only brings destruction.

I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance.

The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

The typical person saw over 5,000 advertisements yesterday telling them to buy something new. Here's 1 with the opposite message: Buy Less.

Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are.