Anti Consumerism Quotes

#1. I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

Paul Auster

#2. We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.

George Papandreou

#3. TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.

Roseanne Barr

#4. As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Jason Silva

#5. Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Ayn Rand

#6. These days only a guerrilla or a box man would want to cover up his identity to the extent of refusing the convenience of instalment buying. But I am that box man. A representative of anti-instalmentism.

Kobo Abe

#7. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.

Proclus

#8. I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.

Leelee Sobieski

#9. He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts.

Ken Liu

#10. I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

Jean O'Leary

#11. I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

Josh Turner

#12. My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

Jessica Warman