Quotes about Consumerism

The way of mammon (capital, wealth) is the way of commodity that is the way of endless desire, endless productivity, and endless restlessness without any Sabbath. Jesus taught his disciples that they could not have it both ways.

Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

I have come to believe that the major threat to the viability of our faith is that of consumerism.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.

It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.