Quotes About Consumerism

Stoner learned that men killed women for lawn mowers and crockpots.

Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

I was just looking at a packet that had SpongeBob thong underwear, so it goes farther than I would imagine.

We live in a capitalist society, so our power as people who consume is significant. I boycott unethical companies and avoid buying stuff made in sweatshops and stuff that will end up in landfills.

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.

What do women want? Shoes.

As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba.

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.