Quotes About Consumerism

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

But you can't be possessed by your possessions. Those are just things.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Some people see what I don't see - I'm just so happy to do all of this just being myself. The same thing what you get on the TV, you will see in your local Asda or the pound shop.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

As consumers, we are making choices,and we allow things to exist, and we celebrate the existence of things. And we can also boycott those things we don't want to be part of.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

I set up Droga5 because I really believe in the power of advertising. But I believe in the power of advertising that's in synch with what consumers want.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

I feel the world is over-saturated with products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising corporations.

I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s.