Quotes About Consumerism

Stores are never nice to people. They're nice to credit cards.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

enjoy such quintessentially Chinese experiences as the Madame Tussauds wax museum, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Sunglass Hut.

By virtue of the fact that they expect so much less than poor Americans—they don't care about movies, clothes, and cars—they are more content than the poor people in America.

It is the market that drives planned obsolescence, not growth or consumerism.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.

This restless searching is what's behind the 'me–first' attitude that has characterized recent decades, and it's affecting everyone, from Wall Street to street gangs." She

By the late 1950s millions of Americans were enjoying the bounties of affluence and the consumer culture, the likes of which they had scarcely imagined before. In the process they were developing larger expectations about life and beginning to challenge things that had seemed set in stone only a few years earlier. Older cultural norms, however, still remained strong until the 1960s, when expectations ascended to new heights and helped to facilitate social unrest on a new and different scale.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

It's a known fact that you get fucked at the drive-thru.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.

When our customer leaves Urban Outfitters, the Main Line is the type of place where more of them go than don't.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.