Conscious Consumerism Quotes

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. ~ John Elkington

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy. ~ Russell Brand

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

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs. ~ Tariq Ramadan

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious. ~ Julian Schnabel

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade's French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America. ~ Francine Pascal

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism. ~ Harry Hay

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally. ~ James Gustave Speth

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways. ~ John Elkington

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

There's no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism. ~ Alan Hirsch

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious ~ Doug Boyd

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. ~ Jhonen Vasquez

Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products - contributing to economic growth twice over. ~ Yuval Noah Harari

THE MISCONCEPTION: Both consumerism and capitalism are sustained by corporations and advertising. THE TRUTH: Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status. ~ David McRaney

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. ~ Aristotle.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace. ~ David Shi

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

There's a conscious decision to everything I do. ~ Daniel Craig

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

Should consumerism be the last thing we accomplish as a species, after all this evolution and the miraculous series of accidents that granted our sentience? Would that not be an utterly dull and inane end to our history? ~ Robert Wringham

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. ~ Pope Francis

Take complete control over the messages you allow into your conscious mind. ~ Brian Tracy

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious. ~ Aidan Gillen

A thing cannot be conscious without having agency, but it can have agency without being conscious. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Gentrification and consumerism ... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen. ~ Tom Hayden

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness. ~ Richard Rohr

I really hate being self-conscious - and being conscious of being self-conscious ~ Natalie Portman

Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare rare. Venti, two-pump, sugar-free vanilla, non-fat, two Splenda, extra-hot, extra-whip, extra-mocha Mocha and can you put the Splenda in before you pour the milk? (See, this is where it gets positively delicious!) Under the auspices of that wonderful word Consumerism, not only is this not seen as overly demanding, it's positively encouraged by everyone. ~ Geoffrey Wood

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living. ~ Vandana Shiva

The day is conscious of itself. ~ Rumi

Set your desires in motion by connecting to the heart conscious. ~ Steven Redhead

In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever. ~ Rajneesh

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates. ~ Bryan Adams

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it. ~ Thomas Sowell

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. ~ Jerry Harrison

When you're the conscious captain in your kitchen, you'll feel better mentally and physically. ~ Kris Carr

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind ~ Jenny Holzer

I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own. ~ Tove Styrke

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. ~ China Mieville

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon. ~ Frederick Lenz

He is conscious only of God ... To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self. ~ Meister Eckhart

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite ~ Rob Hopkins

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. ~ Wim Wenders

When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious. ~ Lil B

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it. ~ Alejandra Deheza

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions. ~ Paul Tillich

We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consumerism needs children who do not stay attached to their toys for very long and learn to expect the next round of presents as soon as possible. When consumerism succeeds, our attachments are shallow, easily broken, so we can move on to the next thing we're supposed to get. Being a good consumer means desiring new things, not cherishing old ones. And the new things you're supposed to desire are not always material things. Spirituality is now a consumerist enterprise, too. ~ Phillip Cary

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious. ~ E.B. White

An evolved Goddess is someone who has a conscious comprehension and awareness to life, a beauty in their mindful nature, and is a role model who seeks to drive forward conscious change. ~ Emma Mildon

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious. ~ Chris Lilley

It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind. ~ Ernest Wood

The United States is the most prosperous nation in the world, and yet our citizenship has been comprehensively reduced to consumerism... Buy and ye shall be happy. But what have we truly purchased? In the words of my favorite poet, Henry David Thoreau, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," our lives prostrate at the altar of the false gods of our instant-gratification society. ~ Rich Roll

Be conscious of your actions daily ~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything has a consciousness. Every atom and molecule is conscious. Every virus and bacteria is conscious. Every tree, large and small animals are conscious, but each level of consciousness is different. All humans are conscious; the level of consciousness among humans also differs. ~ Debasish Mridha

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence. ~ Gangaji

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. ~ Bobby Darin

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. ~ Oscar Wilde

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it. ~ Antonio Damasio

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. ~ Steve Martin

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular ... but now I've learned to love them. ~ Vanessa Hudgens

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself. ~ Edward Young

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy. ~ Eckhart Tolle

If I ask you, are you conscious right now? You'd go right ahead and tell me - yes. That's because your conscious mind is constructing an awareness in you about everything around you. And underneath that operation of your conscious mind, there are billions of neurons working in proper harmony. ~ Abhijit Naskar

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Ship, are you conscious now?" "My speaking establishes a subject position that might be conscious. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself - in my mind. Painfully conscious. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions. ~ Eugene Ionesco

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors. ~ Rajneesh

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort. ~ Jeanne De Salzmann

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did. ~ Ray Walston

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff. ~ Matthew Lewis

I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are. ~ Debasish Mridha

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me. ~ Jackie Mason

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious. ~ Marshall McLuhan

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

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure. ~ Richard Gere

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy. ~ Harriet Walter

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing. ~ Flea

Whatever is not conscious will be experienced as fate. ~ Carl Jung

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them. ~ Meghan O'Rourke

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger. ~ Kristen Stewart

Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything. ~ Hsing Yun

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. ~ Diablo Cody

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. ~ Arthur Koestler

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry. ~ Marianne Moore

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. ~ Ernest Becker

The other side is beyond knowing. You cannot know what you experience on the other side, here. Wisdom is beyond the grasp of the conscious mind. ~ Frederick Lenz

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it. ~ Paul Auster

I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me. ~ Ingmar Bergman

I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time. ~ David Nicholls

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. ~ Carl Jung

We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away. ~ Michael Novak

There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch