Quotes About Consumerism

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.

Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.