We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.
Consumers - Consumption Quotes
Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.
I don’t know how it happens. My car just drives itself to Neiman Marcus.
Show your confidence. Show you’re not afraid. Go to restaurants. Go shopping.
A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Certainly the goal of adding to our material comforts and our leisure time has not filled our lives. Are we not beginning to yearn for something beyond ourselves?
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions; every step which he advances brings something within his view, which he did not see before, and which, as soon as he sees it, he begins to want. Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than […]
Whatever is found to gratify the publick, will be multiplied by the emulation of venders beyond necessity or use. This plenty, indeed, produces cheapness, but cheapness always ends in negligence and depravation.
