Quotes About Consumerism

most people found it hard to know what to do other than eat and drink around the clock in a conscientious drive to fill as many recycling bags as possible.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

We may not be able to say, "Don't watch," but we can watch with them and show them how to view critically, how to recognize propaganda tricks used to sell them stuff they don't need, how to identify hidden values and defuse attempts to manipulate them.

Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.

It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

Nobody watches commercials if you ask them. Nevertheless, they watch commercials.

Some watches I bought, I think now, 'Why the hell did I pay that much for a watch?'

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

The capitalist model, the developed model, the consumer model which comes from the North, which it has forced on the world, is falling apart on Earth, and there is no planet nearby that we can emigrate to.

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet.

I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.