Quotes About Consumerism

Fashion, ultimately, is for the masses.

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

Everyone's life is for sale in America.

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.

I'm happy to buy something that was previously owned, as long as I can get it conveniently.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.

I think, aesthetically, I've always been drawn to packaging and products, combs and blowdryers, all that.

The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.

There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.

With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.

I've come to realize nobody needs what we sell. There's hardly a woman who needs another pair of black shoes.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

Indeed the unpalatable truth may well be that we are the ones who oppress the type of people that Jesus spoke with—not directly with hatred in our hearts, but indirectly through the clothes we buy, the coffee we drink, the investments we make, and the cars that we drive. By reading these words in an affluent, Western setting we can so easily domesticate the words of Jesus to the extent that they become little more than advice on how to treat a shop assistant or a passerby.

I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!