Quotes About Consumerism

Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.

Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!

Las clases media y alta viven ahora tan protegidas, su existencia tan controlada, que carecen de cicatrices. Y a falta de cicatrices se tatúan. También por eso la ropa nueva que compran está rota y con desgaste simulado, como si hubiese sido usada por años en trabajos rudos. A estas generaciones les faltan heridas, calle, golpes».

Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle's estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual's gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

The more you consume the less you live

Advertising is legalized lying.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

Unhappiness isn't just the result of genetics or past trauma or career trouble. I think that some of our unhappiness is simply due to the burden of all our things.

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

I don't really think there's a need to have a men's line. I think a lot of the men's lines just take the products for women and put them in different containers. It's all psychological.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.