Quotes About Consumerism

It helps to know you're not any more responsible for how you look than a car is. You're a product just as much. A product of a product of a product.

Marla's heart looked the way my face was. The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Sen de en az bir araba kadar ürünsün. Bir ürünün, ürününün, ürünü. Arabalar? dizayn eden adamlar da birer ürün. Senin ailen bir ürün. Onlar?n ailesi de birer üründü. ÖÄŸretmenlerin, ürün. Kilisedeki papaz, baÅŸka bir ürün.

Towles burn. Bathroom inferno! Chanel No. 5, it burns. Oil paintings of racehorses and dead pheasants burn. The reproduction Oriental carpets burn. Evie's bad dried flower arrangements, they're these little tabletop infernos. Too cute! Evie's Katty Kathy doll, it melts, then it burns. Evie's collection of big carnival stuffed animals—Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo and Ringer—it's fun-fur holocaust. Too sweet. Too precious.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

and the things you used to own, now they own you.

La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan. Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espirirual.

The things you own end up owning you

Reklamlar insanlar? gerek duymad?klar? arabalar?n ve k?yafetlerin peÅŸinde koÅŸturuyor. Kaç kuÅŸakt?r insanlar nefret ettikleri iÅŸlerde çal???yorlar, neden? Gerçekte ihtiyaç duymad?klar? ÅŸeyleri sat?n alabilmek için.

The thing about being cloned from all those shampoo commercials, well, that goes for me and Brandy Alexander, too. Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

Hay un tipo de mujeres y de hombres jóvenes y fuertes que quieren dar su vida por una causa. La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle.

Chuck Palahniuk

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.

Chuck Palahniuk "Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we don't need

Rzeczy, które posiadasz w koÅ"cu zaczynajÄ… posiada? ciebie.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just to buy the things they really don't need.

You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled.

JesteÅ›my niekochanymi dzie?mi historii, wychowanymi na telewizji, która przez lata wmawiaÅ'a nam, ?e pewnego dnia zostaniemy milionerami i gwiazdami filmowymi, i gwiazdami rocka, ale tak siÄ™ nie stanie. I to wÅ'aÅ›nie teraz do nas dociera. WiÄ™c nie zadzieraj z nami.