"So far consumerism has been seen as an excess of vanity, that if you have forty pairs of shoes, two televisions etc.. But this is much more serious: rights are being consumed, needs are being consumed. If 20 percent of people and families are well-off, living in the civilization of comfort, there are 80 percent who do not have the basics. Consumerism is capitalist, and all the evil that is in capitalism is in consumerism"