Quotes About Consumerism

Of course, there was also a computer store on Main Street, as well as two video stores and a satellite dish dealership, and just two miles away from the center of town was the very latest thing in movie multiplexes.

You're the one who doesn't understand, Lev said. In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits! What's the point in having five suits? Grigori said in frustration. It's like having five beds. You can only use one at a time!

Los biberones eran un lujo que escaseaba más que las grabadoras. —Gracias

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

The way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship.

The world is too much with us.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

In Beverly Hills, they don't throw their garbage away — they make it into television shows.

People desperately want to spend their money. Maybe they think that's the most effective way to feel alive.

Online ads might be annoying, but so is the cashier at your bookstore. But you probably never told yourself: "I want these books and magazines, but that payment part is really annoying… It's an interruption in my day to stand in line and take out my credit card. So I'll just take all the books I wanted and walk out the store without the annoying part!".

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

The trouble with market research is that people don't think what they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Whitman would be appalled in the 1850s when holiday celebrations began to be mass-oriented spectacles manipulated by professionals. One of his most famous poetic lines—" I celebrate myself"—can be taken, on one level, as an attempt to restore the idea of celebration, which was fast becoming coldly manipulative, to the personal and genuinely celebratory.

Capitalism implies and induces insecurity, which is constantly being exploited, of course, by all sorts of people selling things.

The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.

The mall owes its existence to Level II complexity: malls weren't feasible before there were cars, yet you could not predict their rise just by examining a car.

We buy our chains from our jailers and only when we put need before desire will we escape the prison of neo-liberalism