Consumption Society Quotes

#1. Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Russell Kirk

#2. Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Elise Boulding

#3. The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Christopher Lasch

#4. We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue. Politicians call it "refinements in domestic consumption." I call it meaningless waste.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

Graham Hancock

#6. If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Corey Feldman

#7. It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

Mechai Viravaidya

#9. It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society.

Sally Crawford

#10. Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.

Susan Sontag

#11. The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#12. Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not ... " - Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear - " ... when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.

Erykah Badu

#13. Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

Juliet B. Schor

#14. When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. When we buy junk, we become junk.

Bryant McGill

#16. The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.

John Caples

#17. A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

#18. Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Raoul Vaneigem

#19. In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

#20. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

Rebecca Solnit

#22. A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

Ivan Illich

#23. When your heart is full of kindness, mind is full of love, words are healing and compassionate, hands are extended for care, you are the purest temple, you are great and rare.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.

George Orwell

#25. They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Lemony Snicket

#26. We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

Tom Brokaw

#27. Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

Noel Coward

#28. Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most.

Emily Levine

#29. People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

Mitch Kapor

#30. The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Robert Trout

#31. Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#32. The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.

Winona LaDuke

#33. The economic and marketing forces of modern society have engineered an environment ... that maximize[s] consumption at the long-term cost of well-being,

Sebastian Junger