Quotes About Consumerism

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Where were all the normal cutesy playful nickknacks most girls her age had? There were no Mickey Mouse or Miffy Rabbit stuffed animals, nor posters of singers like Kazuya Kamenashi, or movie stars like Brad Pitt

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

The practical orders of life, while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Der Verfall des Schenkens spiegelt sich in der peinlichen Erfindung der Geschenkartikel, die bereits darauf angelegt sind, daß man nicht weiß, was man schenken soll, weil man es eigentlich gar nicht will. Diese Waren sind beziehungslos wie ihre Käufer.

Both high art and industrially produced consumer art] bear the stigmata of capitalism, both contain elements of change. Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which, however, they do not add up.

Life is conceived as a vast supermarket through which one moves with one's shopping trolley, fetching down ways of life from shelves marked "Existential choices.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo.

I buy a lot of electronics, some which I never take out of the box!

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new ways to deliver healthcare... and that means consumerism is going to play a bigger role.

U.S.A. Today is what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.