Quotes About Consumerism

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'.

Why I am NOT going to buy a computer

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

Shouldn't we be presenting an alternative to the prevailing culture rather than simply mimicking it? What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

The ability to pass judgment without work or research has got to be the coolest consumer good since the invention of philosophy.

I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in, a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that our future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

Every automobile ad looks alike.

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.