Quotes About Consumerism

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.

It's not that we are poor because we are uneducated, unemployed nor unqualified, we just have have a buying mentality instead of a selling mentality

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.

modern individuals rarely see the need to adopt a philosophy of life. They instead tend to spend their days working hard to be able to afford the latest consumer gadget, in the resolute belief that if only they buy enough stuff, they will have a life that is both meaningful and maximally fulfilling.

The pure products of Americago crazy—

We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.

David Sarnoff had predicted, the radio became the ornate mahogany god of the American living room: there were three million sets in 1924, thirty million in 1936, and fifty million by 1940, by which time a simple radio could be had for less than ten dollars.

The schools turn wonder into drudgery and uniqueness into aberration. Acceptance by the dulled others becomes worth almost any surrender, and nothing is worth the price of solitude: to read, to ponder, to paint, to pray. In the new Plato's cave, we have the electronic shadows to make the unreal true and to give us an ersatz peace — even though every ad ever produced is deliberately formulated to make us unhappy.

They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.