Quotes About Consumerism

Ia tak mengerti kenapa banyak sekali teman-temannya buang-buang uang begitu banyak untuk membeli aneka beha dan celana dalam ajaib yang toh akan ditanggalkan juga dalam waktu sekejab.

In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way of life with consumer entincements, introducing them to the urbane pleasures of hot spas and fine dining, encouraging them to wear togas and speak Latin.

Maybe it is from all of the processed foods in this country, or maybe it is hormones, but something odd happens to the American brain when we start to breed, and our weakness for stuff, stuff, and more stuff gets further inflated.

Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family, like baby birds, full of sugar, corn products, chemicals, and meat from really, really unhappy animals?

How could a person go to the store, buy everything she needed—and wanted, from the look of some of those carts—and still seem dissatisfied? What more did they need to be happy, then? If all this wouldn't do it?

We plunge ourselves into enormous debt and then take two and three jobs to stay afloat. We uproot our families with unnecessary moves just so we can have a more prestigious house. We grasp and grab and never have enough. And most destructive of all, our flashy cars and sports spectaculars and backyard pools have a way of crowding out much interest in civil rights or inner city poverty or the starved masses of India. Greed has a way of severing the cords of compassion. Richard J. Foster, 1981

English is our ever-expanding neoliberal lingua franca, the consumer language of brand recognition and outsourced labor.

In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

La sociedad de consumo nos condena a vivir en un estado de insuficiencia perpetua, a desear siempre más de lo que podemos comprar. Se nos aparta implacablemente del estado de plenitud, se nos tiene siempre insatisfechos, amargados por todo lo que no podemos permitirnos. Se ha dicho que el sistema del consumo comercial es un poco como el tonel de las Danaides que además sabe aprovechar el descontento y la frustración de todos.

Ever notice there are no clocks in stores? It's like casinos; they don't want you to know how much time you've spent dropping your quarters.

There are now skin products supposedly created with 24-karat gold extract. I guess if financial times got really tough, you could always pawn your own head.

Eight-foot high posters in plate glass windows advertised the latest fashions: for young girls the look was crack whore; for young boys, indecisive pimp; for teenagers of both sexes, the image was androgynous vampire, expensively accessorised.

Here's wishing your Black Friday injuries aren't so severe that you can't click a mouse on Cyber Monday.

Only in America do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

Consumerism has a religious day called Black Friday.

Stuffocation: being overwhelmed by the stuff one has bought or accumulated.

In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavor you like other than coffee-flavor.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.

Humans have forgotten so much... It's so easy for us to live now that our lives have no meaning. So we start looking for something else, something more. Money. A bigger house. A hobby. Church.

We are monkeys with money and guns.

The people who run the mass media and those who consume it are really in the same boat. They must continue to produce things they do not really admire, still less love, in order to continue buying things they do not really want, still less need. If we were dealing only with fintails, two-tone cars, or programs like Gunsmoke, the situation would not be so grave. The trouble is that serious things are handled (and received) with the same essential lack of seriousness.

They must continue to produce things they do not really admire, still less love, in order to continue buying things they do not really want, still less need.