What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I wish you didn’t have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

If we didn’t have the Chinese buying things, we’d be on the floor.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

If you can’t eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don’t bring it.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

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

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.