Quotes About Consumerism

Overall, there isn't much difference between a high-end Android and iOS phone, despite the fact that Android is a knockoff of iOS.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.

Soms is minder gewoonweg wat het is. Minder. En laat net mij gespogen en gescheten zijn, en onherstelbaar voorbestemd, en onherroepelijk verminkt, door een cultuur van 'Mag het iets meer zijn, madam'. En zelfs los daarvan, in alle eerlijkheid: 'minder' is een leugen. 'Minder' is een laffe constructie, gemakzuchtig bedrog, minimalistische kitsch.

You thought you were being sold a television, but it turns out that television is selling you.

New and Improved actually means that the Old Stuff actually Sucked!

Taking the car out of the rental parking lot, almost getting fender-bendered by the guy in the BMW speaking capitalist Cro-Magnon into his cell phone; wondering whether the time has come to get a gun; already starting to look forward to my lethal injection—

This is because mothers who feel guilty about being separated from their children by their slave wage job try to make it up by charging up debt they can't afford to buy their kids plastic crap made by child slaves in China. This is an echo of the first Christmas, when the Wise Men gave gifts to the newborn babe that they knew was destined to be sacrificed.

Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture.

There's something repulsive about an American without money in his pocket.

The Americans are the nature of the future, she would announce in her hearty voice. Here's to 'em. God bless their gadgets, great and small, God bless Frigidaire, Tampax and Coca-Cola. Yes, even Coca-Cola,darling. (It was generally conceded that Coca-Cola's advertising was ruining the picturesqueness of Morocco.)

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

A hunter-gatherer's needs are few, but a Western citizen expects a car, paved streets, hot water on demand, airports, sewer lines, phone service, a refrigerator, computer, microwave, and a PlayStation... as a start.

The acquisition of material things has become the hallmark of the shallow life.

And father said I never wanted this. I'm sick of everyone pretending to be old Dan Beavers in his L. L. Bean moccasins, and his Dubbelwares, and his Japanese bucksaw -- all these fake frontiersmen with their chuck wagons full of Twinkies and Wonderbread and aerosol cheese spread. Get out the Duraflame log and the plastic cracker barrel, Dan, and let's talk self-sufficiency!

En fin, en este país se hace cada día más difícil sobrevivir al modelito. La globa la lleva, los pobres arrastran la bolsa del pan sin pan.

Y el niño tiene que conformarse con mirar de lejos esos colores verde menta, morado mora, rosa frutilla o amarillo bocado que ofrecen las heladerías. Muy adentro, en su enano corazón, él ya sabe que pertenece a esa muchedumbre conformista que mira las vitrinas tocándose las monedas para el Metro.

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

When you're talking about over 26,000 items - and that's just Disney - it's a little hard to say where want ends and coercion begins.