Quotes about Consumerism
Golf is typical capitalist lunacy
— George Bernard Shaw
The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
— Rachel Held Evans
If you own a rug you own too much.
— Jack Kerouac
Most people are manipulated by the approval of others, the paycheck that supports them, and the lifestyle that has handcuffed them to the brass ring of perceived success. On this path we eventually live like slaves to a man-made system. We chase the goals of others instead of pursuing our own dreams. We anesthetize our despair with the next purchase, pill, or plunder.
— Bishop TD Jakes
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
— Will Rogers
Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
— Herman Melville
Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
— Eugene Peterson
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
— Shane Claiborne
He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There's nothing more I love than McDonald's dollar menu. With just the change I find between my couch cushions, I can eat something with the nutritional value of a couch cushion.
— Stephen Colbert
The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.
— Eugene Peterson