Quotes About Consumerism

Customers don't care about rivalries between corporations, they care about getting the best value for their money.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

In our first issue of 1983 we reported on a new piece of equipment only available in Japan, the $1,000 compact disc player, with the headline "Will the Compact Disc Make the LP Obsolete?

Money is a form of alchemy, [...] it turns kind, normal people into greed-mongers, intent only on acquisitiveness.

You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the Plaza with your beautiful wife, doesn't it make sense to order the best Scotch that money can buy before you go to the theater in your private limousine?

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.

Birey, televizyondaki Sudan Ä°ç Sava??n? herhangi bir tuvalet ka??d? reklam?yla ayn? duyars?zl?kla izlemektedir. Televizyonu kapatt?ktan sonra, Sudan'da ki iç savaÅŸ devam etse bile, onun için bitmiÅŸtir.

These old Australians or Californians who spend all their days staring at the ocean without leaving their limousines, which they have turned into their panoramic childhood sites and their coffins, and who dream there, while awaiting the last wave, the one that will come from the depths of the ocean to engulf them.

The stupidity of all commercial or cultural anti- Americanism. As if Americanism did not run through every society, every nation, and every individual today, like modernity itself.

Il Nuovo Ordine Mondiale è disneico.

There is no more evidence of the effectiveness of advertising than of the existence of God.

Bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle kitlelerin Beaubourg'a koÅŸmalar?n?n nedeni yüzlerce y?ld?r kendilerini yoran, b?kt?ran bu kültür kar??s?nda salya ak?tmak deÄŸil, her zaman nefret etmiÅŸ olduklar? bir kültürün yas?n? tutma f?rsat?n? kitle hâlinde ilk kez ellerine geçirmiÅŸ olmalar?d?r.

It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.

Money culture recognises no currency but its own. Whatever is not money, whatever is not making money, is useless to it. The entire efforts of our government as directed through our society are efforts towards making more and more money. This favours the survival of the dullest.

El centro comercial no es nuestro verdadero hogar, ni un espacio público, aunque, a medida que desaparecen las librerías, los jardines, los parques, los museos y los polideportivos, la falsa amabilidad de los centros comerciales sea el único espacio que queda para muchos, aparte de las calles.

I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart...

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?