Quotes About Consumerism

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!

We no longer live life. We consume it.

Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

This bank-note world.

Housewives spend more money than their husbands make, so that other people think their husbands earn more money than they really do.

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Apple likes me, but they strongly prefer my money.

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.

Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.