Advertising Consumerism Quotes

#1. Tears from the old me trickle into a clear cup of truth for the new.

Laurel Garver

#2. Happiness has nothing to do with success, happiness has nothing to do with ambition, happiness has nothing to do with money, power, prestige. Happiness has something to do with your consiousness, not with your character.

Osho

#3. Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.

Kalle Lasn

#4. Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.

John Vianney

#5. It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life's purpose.

Molly Friedenfeld

#6. There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

Stephanie Mills

#7. So plan A is a bust. God can make plan B better than plan A ever would have been. Plan B. Or even plan C.

Susan May Warren

#8. Our public life is largely premised on an exploitation of our common anxiety. The advertising of consumerism and the drives of the acquisitive society, like he serpent, seduce into believing there are securities apart from the reality of God.

Walter Brueggemann

#9. Maybe you have a guardian angel.

Anonymous

#10. In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.

Simon Pegg

#11. But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.

Mark Twain

#12. After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.

Gunter Grass

#13. It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Christopher Lasch

#14. Prepare while others are daydreaming.

William Arthur Ward

#15. He's the only one of you that's ever tried to sneak up on a bad guy, and that was a million beers ago

Gary Hansen

#16. In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

Kalle Lasn

#17. clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

John Connolly

#18. Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak

Rumi

#19. THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status.

David McRaney

#20. Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

John O'Donohue

#21. History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Tariq Ali