Quotes About Consumerism

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

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.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.