Certainly the goal of adding to our material comforts and our leisure time has not filled our lives. Are we not beginning to yearn for something beyond ourselves?
Consumers - Consumption Quotes
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Conserving our natural resources does not mean using them up less quickly. We can re-learn conservation by reading the earth, observing that in Nature, nothing is wasted, and everything is made ready for the next user.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
The society that kneels before the commercial altar of childhood in the adorable forms of Strawberry Shortcake, Peter Pan, and Annie is the same society that murders its children, rapes them, starves them, poisons them, and hates them to death.
