#consume

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet. ↗

— Russell Brand

#consumerism #love #socialism #spirituality #change

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#environment #plastic #sustainability #love

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#american-society #consumerism #wanting #inspirational

You are a guest of nature - behave. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#earth #inspiration #respect #sustainable-living #inspirational

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#because #consumed #disgusting #film #going

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#consumers #diminish #due #food #increase

If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it. ↗

— Jean Claude

#buy #consumers #ecology #expensive #more

The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that we can reshape those forces to create healthier, more sustainable system with a more fulfilling goal than 'more stuff ↗

— Rachel Botsman

#life

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefits #causes #companies #consumers #cost