Famous Quotations about Consumerism

I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.  
Adriano Tilgher
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. 
Unknown
Every intelligent boy of sixteen is a Socialist.  At that age one does not see the hook sticking out of the rather stodgy bait.  
George Orwell
 We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.
 Robert Brault
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. 
Author Unknown
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.  
Elwyn Brooks White
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.  
Francis H. Bradley
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. 
Paul Eldridge
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society.  And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.  
Adriano Tilgher
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.  
Henry David Thoreau
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.  
Mignon McLaughlin
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.  
Vernon Howard
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  
Author Unknown
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.  
Mohandas K. Gandhi




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