Sentences with phrase «without consumerism»

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Would stores continue to mark down prices and make the whole holiday really all about consumerism, without the veil of religion that it's hid under for decades?

The best way Christians can resist the «pervasive pluralistic consumerism destructive of all enduring traditions and communities... is the reappropriation without expropriation of the church's roots in Israel and Israel's scriptures.

Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

We're not going to get far in living a life that's shaped by Christian practices without addressing the hold of consumerism on our lives and spirits.

They may be useful in certain situations, but if money or space is tight, or if you're just looking to simplify and reduce consumerism and waste, here's how to get along just fine without these so - called «essentials.

all things our readers can relate to without any difficulty... Btw, I really loved reading your take on waste and consumerism on the post about the 6 × 30 challenge.

If you have a strong desire for material things because that is normal to you, you feel like you deserve them, or you think you can't live without them (even though they are wants, not needs), then breaking that consumerism mentality is a bigger problem than whatever debts it got you into.

What Starbucks enables you, is to be a consumerist, without any bad conscience, because the price for the countermeasure, for fighting consumerism, is already included into the price of a commodity.

We wanted snowy mountains, a good hotel, and a relaxing Christmas without the UK consumerism.

Without irony, but with a deadpan «directness that suggested innocence», he depicted the bomber as though flying through the flak of a consumer society, questioning the «collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.»

In documenting these bloated retail havens (eleven such images made up this recent exhibition at Robert Koch Gallery), Chicago - based photographer Brian Ulrich sets himself the not uncomplicated task of addressing the perils of rampant consumerism without lapsing into simplistic, knee - jerk condemnation.

The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from the embodied impact of our purchases, what about the transaction itself?

The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from the

• We reject the idea that parenting requires hard work • We pledge to leave our children alone • That should mean that they leave us alone, too • We reject the rampant consumerism that invades children from the moment they're born • We read them poetry and fantastic stories without morals • We drink alcohol without guilt • We reject the inner Puritan • We fill the house with music and laughter • We don't waste money on family days out and holidays • We lie in bed for as long as possible • We try not to interfere • We push them into the garden and shut the door so that we can clean the house • We both work as little as possible, particularly when the kids are small • Time is more important than money • Happy mess is better than miserable tidiness • Down with school • We fill the house with music and merriment

Reducing waste and cutting back on your consumerism will do more for the earth — in terms of saving energy and resources — than stocking up on unnecessary fashions (even if they were made without pesticides).

And I don't want say anything against the green building movement because I am part of it, but green consumerism, green building, there are a lot of attempts now to keep something called «the American way of life» going without cost.

We have covered, of course, how consumerism does not make us happier but that living simply can, but we have also discussed something that could be used as an alternative to actually buying things — to get the joy of consumerism without the resulting depression.

where would we be without the gospel of consumerism?