Quotes About Consumerism

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

Wisdom of the Ages: "Soylent Green" No matter how many times I see that movie, I still get a hankerin' for a Big Mac.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I'd eat dirt, " I said, "at least dirt isn't overpriced."~Beans~

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it's too crowded.

The prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy it.

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Financial Insanity Has Its Own Big Following - Including You and Me.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth.

Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?

What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.

Today, the best-selling titles for blacks are in a genre most whites have never even heard of: "ghetto lit." This is the pulp-novel equivalent of rap music—books that glorify drugs, violence, hot sex, easy money, and the pimping life.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

The industry thrives by selling escapist fun at prices the middle class can afford. The mega-ships circling the Caribbean are essentially floating American hotels, freed by foreign flagging from American labor laws. Filipinos work seventy hours a week at less than the minimum wage to bring Americans the blessings of cheap mai tais.