Quotes About Consumerism

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

It is the soulless American who has no heart, who has no thought beyond putting a mighty dollar out at mighty interest, who has no zest for any other book than his soulless ledger.

I didn't have Cartier. I didn't have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

El propietario de una tienda, al que le gustaba hablar de manera más lacónica, le explicó que el cliente no compra en realidad una prenda de vestir, sino una fantasía. Que lo que de veras quería comprar era el sueño de poder ser como los otros que vestían aquella ropa.

There's nothing so absurd that you can't find at least one person to buy it.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Without the U.S. embargo, the Revolution couldn't have survived. It'd needed a common enemy to blame for its economic ills. In the end consumerism, not guns would destroy Socialism. Microwaves and computers, motorcycles, iPhones, Omaha Steaks.

That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

I subscribe to Consumer Reports and as a consequence I own a first-class television set, an all but silent air conditioner and a very long lasting deodorant. My armpits never stink.

The Pepsi Generation campaign, he said, sold not a product but a lifestyle and an optimistic outlook.

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.

a cette incroyable capacité à inventer des gadgets dont on n'a pas besoin et sans lesquels, brusquement, on ne peut plus vivre.

something that could be mass-marketed to consumers. The Cube ended up not serving

sculpture for their desks, and mass-market consumers were not eager to spend twice what

It was important to avoid attachment to material objects. Our consumer desires are unhealthy.

the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now

Begin to consciously decrease your need to purchase more things.