Quotes About Conspicuous Consumption

#1. Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

Arianna Huffington

#2. been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true. He had neither Ellison's conspicuous consumption needs nor Gates's philanthropic impulses nor the competitive urge to see how high

Walter Isaacson

#3. I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [ ... ] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Kenneth Rexroth

#4. Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

Tim Jackson

#5. I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Tim Gunn

#6. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.

Jonathan Haidt

#7. I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

Wendy O. Williams

#8. Owning your own racing ship wasn't even wealth. It was like speciation. It was conspicuous consumption befitting ancient Earth royalty, a pharaoh's pyramid with a reaction drive.

James S.A. Corey

#9. The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.

Allan Bloom

#10. The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Thorstein Veblen

#11. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

#12. conspicuous consumption is not a natural state for all of us.

Jacob Lund Fisker

#13. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Regina Brett

#16. Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
and Buddha becomes the devil.

Dogen

#18. The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

John Steinbeck

#19. Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

Charles R. Swindoll

#20. 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

#21. Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

James Buchan

#22. Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.

Jean De La Bruyere

#23. I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.

Arman

#24. We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Leonard Cohen

#25. Pray as you can; don't pray as you can't.

Brennan Manning

#26. I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Hampton Sides

#27. I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

Malachy McCourt