Quotes About Consumerism

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

I don't see anybody pointing to desktop PCs as being a hot Christmas item.

The more there is on offer, the more you don't want. Fifty options of cereal does not hone an epicurean expertise in the finer points of puffed rice, it murders appetite.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

Most people buy shoes and clothing, but I buy a lot of DVDs.

A commercial is a commercial.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

I love commercials.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

I really don't like too much of the commercial acting in a lot of commercials.

When I became aware of how inhumane it is to test on animals, I made a commitment not to buy anything that was.

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

I am an Apple addict. I have every Apple product, and I buy them so that I can complain about it, you know.

I am a compulsive shopaholic.

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

I don't like ads: I'm too susceptible. I find myself in the supermarket buying Ronseal, and I don't even have a shed.

I have refused to buy a car for the reasons of sustainability.

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?