395 Quotes About Consumerism

In today’s world, money is like oxygen - lack of oxygen can kill you, so can too much of it.

Whenever we buy something we do not need, we waste not only money but also time.

Life would not seem short if we valued time as much as we value money.

We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.

If we saw how everything was made, from start to finish, most companies would go out of business.

Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that we have a common past, common interests and a common future. This isn't a lie. It's imagination. Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They exist only in our collective imagination, yet their power is immense.

People endorse negative liberty - the individual free of the State - and hate positive liberty - the individual harnessed by the State.

The ancient Athenians were determined to free the people from the plutocrats. Now freedom has been replaced by freedumb, and the only freedom the people have is to choose this consumer item rather than that one. Whatever one they choose, they make the rich richer, and the boot on their neck grows ever more forceful.

Finding peace of mind usually demands that we lose some things and some people.