Quotes About Consumerism

We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Give the people what they want and then go have a hamburger.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.

Joseph's gift to Babet was considered one of the decorative "musts" of the day—a gold-plated rolling pin, designed to show that its owner "no longer made her own bread, but was financially able to endure the strain of purchasing ready-made loaves at the grocer's.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

retail chains charge tens of thousands of dollars to place a particular candy bar in the racks near the register. Very few people, after all, head into

overspenditis." Today, people can become infected with this condition from watching too much television, reading too many magazines and catalogs, or hanging out with free-spending friends. Unknowingly, Paul and Sara had been lured into believing that they needed to have and do all the things they saw their friends doing—whether or not the money was there.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.

Materialism is an insidious thing; the more you get, the more you expect.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

I skip through the programming to watch the commercials.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

I think we are slowly killing liberty, creativity, intelligent thinking; it's as if we are being led into a world that is like a huge shopping centre, with a sort of anaesthesia about everything except the choice of goods in front of us.