John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
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Consumerism
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Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist, Humorist
"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more."
Hippocrates
Physician
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth."
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"Consumerism is our national religion."
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"I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism."
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"What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives."
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"We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really"
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"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
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"We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy."
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"Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton."
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"All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me."
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"What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"
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"We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend."
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"Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness."
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"These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme."
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