Quotes About Consumerism

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

S.U.V.'s are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and yet the S.U.V. buyer is a very loyal lot.

I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

I don't believe in the American dream anyway, becoming a billionaire and buying expensive cars.

We might make money and be in the careers we're in, but we don't need a bunch of stuff. We like showcasing that and letting people know that it's OK to not want things and keep wanting bigger and better.

Part of the reason Loewe has diversified into so many other categories is because what we can't do any more is simply say, 'Here's more stuff you can buy.'

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

You'll be in the checkout line at the supermarket, and there will be one of our movies in between the Certs and 'The National Enquirer.' That's where some of ours end up.

My own day-to-day observations confirm that many Americans can barely make change. At the supermarket where I buy groceries, I've watched more than one encounter at the cash register where both customer and clerk are befuddled at the prospect of double-checking the sums.

I'm an American except when I'm in the supermarket or at the candy store.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide you with that good.

I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn't want to buy something, you didn't need it.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.