Quotes About Consumerism

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.