Quotes About Consumerism

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

I don't really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.

I shop more than most women.

Women just love to shop.

I don't think I'll ever shop on the high street in the same way again. It just doesn't have the same excitement for me.

Everywhere I go, I buy something. I probably have an issue with shopping.

I'm much more of a city girl. I like the mall. I like shopping.

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

I actually hate shopping.

I hate shopping.

I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

I don't like shopping that much. I do it for an hour, and then I feel empty inside and weird.

I'm constantly shopping; I'm not going to lie.

I don't like shopping at all.

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

When I speak, I ask the people, particularly since there are many of us, 'Where will you spend your hard-earned money? Why spend it where it is not gay-friendly? Why should you spend your money in countries that are not gay-friendly just because they have beautiful beaches?'

Advertising is a nebulous beast at the best of times.

Mortenson was merely selling what the public was eager to buy.

One man was saying, 'It cost me a new SUV for my wife,'" Andrew said. "Another said, 'It cost me a cruise to the Bahamas and a new kitchen.' Everyone was laughing.

Above all, she wondered why anyone would react to the global spread of a virus by buying almost two hundred rolls of toilet paper. Was this really people's darkest fear: that one day, because of a terrible economic crisis, or a crisis of public health, or the onset of climate catastrophe, they might not be able to wipe their bottoms?

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value...

As she left her parents' neighborhood, the houses got newer and bigger and boxier. Through windows with no mullions or fake plastic mullions she could see luminous screens, some giant, some miniature. Evidently every hour of the year, including this one, was a good hour for staring at a screen.

No existe nadie cuya personalidad real nos guste hasta la última partícula. Por eso, un mundo donde todo consiste en gustar es en última instancia una mentira. Pero sí existe la persona de cuya personalidad real uno ama hasta la última partícula. Y por eso el amor representa tal amenaza existencial para el orden del tecnoconsumismo: Saca a la luz la mentira

available in the Republic had been paltry, a telephone, a flat with some air and light, the all-important permission to travel, but perhaps no paltrier than having x number of followers on Twitter, a much-liked Facebook profile, and the occasional four-minute spot on CNBC.