Till Lindemann Quotes

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption .

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.