Quotes About Consumerism

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

What, eBay isn't good enough for us?

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.