Quotes About Consumerism

Try not to say "I have" unless it's not bought by the money. If materialism is a blessing would have not been sold out in streets

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Money is the poor people's credit card.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.

I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

in these shitty plastic days ...

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

The only difference between Patriotism and Brand loyalty is that the latter doesn't kill you.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.