Consumerism Quotes

  • Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
    ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
    ~ Jeff Bezos
  • It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
    ~ Kalle Lasn
  • It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
    ~ Christopher Lasch
  • It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers, the environment, human health, and peace first.
    ~ Dennis Kucinich
  • American consumerism is about buying things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress friends we don't have time for.
    ~ Leo Horrigan
  • I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.
    ~ Denis Hayes
  • The role of the market place is to be an instrument of environmental change and policy making. We are all consumers with a great potential for change. Environmental protection begins at home.
    ~ Noel Brown
  • My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
    ~ Bill Bryson
  • We no longer live life. We consume it.
    ~ Vicki Robin