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The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

~Bruce Feiler

Topics: Capitalism Consumerism Easily Get Going Marginalized More Older Realize Religion Science

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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

~Bryant H. Mcgill

Topics: Consumerism Endless Folly Happiness Materialism Sends Through Us Wild

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My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

~Christian Bale

Topics: About Between Character Complete Consumerism Difference Ethics Film Hope Lack Message Obsession People Saying Will

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Advertising Consumerism Governs Logic Mass Mass Media Media Reality

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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Consumerism Destructive Different Family Family Life Life Logic Loyalty Permanence Set Values

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Art Consumerism Image Just Largely Make Message Mirror Modern Modern Art New Which

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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Been Consumerism Developments Eroded Family Life Promoted Same Wage Way

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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Because Consumerism Convenience Democracy Democratic Domestic Hidden Merely Radically Structures Violence Western Within

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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Consumerism Contained Continually Could Demand Easily Encouraged Expansive Fulfillment Gratification Message Most Now Products Pushing Right

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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

~Emma Thompson

Topics: Consumerism Crust Heavy Really Think Very I Think

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