Consumerist Quotes

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. (Mitch Daniels)
Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love. View quote
Fatema Mernissi
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me. View quote
Walter Dean Myers
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
Have we clothed our faith with the forms of our American culture to the point that our Christianity has morphed into something entirely different - a folk religion altogether consumerist in spirit and content? View quote
Skye Jethani
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution. View quote
Steven Pinker
The Holy Spirit is God eternally giving himself; like a never-ending spring he pours forth nothing less than himself. In view of this ceaseless gift, we come to see the limitations of all that perishes, the folly of the consumerist mindset. We begin to understand why the quest for novelty leaves us unsatisfied and wanting. Are we not looking for an eternal gift? For the spring that will never run dry? View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health. View quote
Michael J. Sandel