Quotes About Consumerism

A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.

Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

Wal-Mart: The only place on earth you can get a haircut, eye exam, ice cream sandwich, tires for your car, and witness a real life what not to wear episode...

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer...Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

Hoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.

This book exposes the ways in which food companies use political processes—entirely conventional and nearly always legal—to obtain government and professional support for the sale of their products. Its twofold purpose is to illuminate the extent to which the food industry determines what people eat and to generate much wider discussion of the food industry's marketing methods and use of the political system.

Department store doors were flung wide open like vast jaws, ready to feed on the shopping plankton that drifted through them.

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.

Americans sense that something is wrong with the places where we live and work and go about our daily business," wrote social critic James Howard Kunstler in 1996. "We drive up and down the gruesome, tragic suburban boulevards of commerce, and we're overwhelmed at the fantastic, awesome, stupefying ugliness of absolutely everything in sight… as though the whole thing had been designed by some diabolical force bent on making human beings miserable.

But the comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

Let me be clear: I felt bad about the state of the planet, and I was willing to pay extra if it supported an actual farmer instead of the bovine gulag.

The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.