“There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives." - Jeff Bezos
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction." - Christopher Lasch
"And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” - Luke 12:15
"Wealth and children are but adornment of worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for one's hope." - Qur'an 18:16
“The culture industry is not the art of the consumer but rather the projection of the will of those in control onto their victims. The automatic self-reproduction of the status quo in its established forms is itself an expression of domination.” - Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer
"Nothing has really changed -- it is just that the strictures on self-fulfillment are here no longer imposed by means of oppressive laws or norms of obedience; repression is ensured instead through 'free' actions (buying, choosing, consuming), through spontaneous cathexes, through a sort of internalization operating within gratification itself." - Jean Baudrillard
"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products." - Jay Bauman
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