Wastefulness And Consumerism Quotes & Sayings

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more. — Rajneesh

Freedom isn't just about getting to make your own choices. It's about getting to enjoy the life you're given, to live life to the fullest. That's the beauty of mortality, of what makes someone human. Time is treasured. The eternal ... all they have is time. — Courtney Allison Moulton

Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe. — Carrie Jones

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. — Philip Yancey

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them. — Masashi Kishimoto

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different. — Andy Murray

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments — Brian Tracy

We are not 'censored' in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a 'Like' button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners? — Sergio Troncoso

As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies ... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels. — Vance Packard

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical. — Jessie Mueller

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in — Murray Walker

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready. — A.D. Posey

An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating. — Nick Harkaway

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A sense of accomplishment. It is the most important ingredient in any rational being's formula of happiness. It is the element that builds confidence and allows us to go on to other, greater tasks. It is the item that promotes a sense of self-worth, that allows any person to believe there is value in life itself, that gives a sense of purpose to bolster us as we face life's unanswerable questions. — R.A. Salvatore

There's no such thing as an ugly woman, just not enough brandy. Of — Deborah Moggach

Ugh. Would that Christmas could just be, without presents. It is just so stupid, everyone exhausting themselves, miserably haemorrhaging money on pointless items nobody wants: no longer tokens of love but angst-ridden solutions to problems. [...] What is the point of entire nation rushing round for six weeks in a bad mood preparing for utterly pointless Taste-of-Others exam which entire nation then fails and gets stuck with hideous unwanted merchandise as fallout? If gifts and cards were completely eradicated, then Christmas as pagan-style twinkly festival to distract from lengthy winter gloom would be lovely. But if government, religious bodies, parents, tradition, etc. insist on Christmas Gift Tax to ruin everything why not make it that everyone must go out and spend £500 on themselves then distribute the items among their relatives and friends to wrap up and give to them instead of this psychic-failure torment? — Helen Fielding