Quotes About Consumerism

Valentines Day isn't a real holiday it's just for commercial purposes...coming from me who is single.

I may love to shop, but I'm not buying your bullsh...

I may like to shop but I'm most defiantly not buying you bullsh...

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.

The economy made me focus on designing more must-haves.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

I don't want a Lamborghini. Even if I was given one, I'd be like one of those people who won the speedboat on 'Bullseye' and have it in Exchange & Mart within 48 hours.

There's so much advertising on television that I find just lazy, just so lazy. I'm like, 'Why are they doing that?'

The more we have the less we own.

We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.

I loathe the very thought of airports and also airlines taking as much from you as possible and giving very little back.

When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.