Quotes About Consumerism

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

If you own a rug you own too much.

Most people are manipulated by the approval of others, the paycheck that supports them, and the lifestyle that has handcuffed them to the brass ring of perceived success. On this path we eventually live like slaves to a man-made system. We chase the goals of others instead of pursuing our own dreams. We anesthetize our despair with the next purchase, pill, or plunder.

Black Friday: because only in America people trample each other for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

If shopping doesn't make you happy, then you're in the wrong shop.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.

He used to think things like, This organic soymilk will make me healthy and that'll make my brain work better and that'll improve my writing . Also things like, The less I eat the less money I spend on publicly owned companies the less pain and suffering will exist in the world . Now he thinks things like, It is impossible to be happy . Why would anyone think that?

He scolded his listeners for being eager to sell off their few productive assets in exchange for articles of prestige. "You say you want a definition of perpetual motion?" he asked. "Give the average Negro a Cadillac and tell him to park it on some land he owns.

If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we haveand the thing weve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously thats going to be our least favourite thing.

There's nothing like listening to the drone of QVC's always-bubbly pitchwomen, as they try to move loose-fitting tunics with 'just the right amount of sparkle,' to soothe you into a healing slumber.

I think there's a huge lack of political artists in America, and I think it really speaks to our consumeristic culture and how people are driven to be financially successful here. It's such a shame that we don't have people who are more inspired than that.

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

I love spending money. I always have.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Spice Girls appealed to little girls. It wasn't good music - mums would buy the albums for their kids - it was all about the gimmicks.