Quotes About Consumerism

Rule number one in paying yourself first is: Don't get into consumer debt in the rst place.

Maybe McDonald's does not make the best hamburger, but they are the best at selling and delivering a basic average burger. Poor

Most people, given more money, only get into more debt.

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." On the other hand, any true enjoyment serves to make us feel more deeply connected with everything else. Enjoying good food, music, sex, and books, enjoying pleasant physical surroundings and beautiful things, traveling to interesting places—all these enrich and enliven us. In the West, spirituality has been long

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?

Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

the innate tendency of a society of consumers to instil in their members a willingness to accord other people the same - and no more - respect as they are trained to feel and to show to consumer goods, the objects designed and destined for instantaneous, and possibly untroubled satisfaction, with no strings attached.

Arlie Russell Hochschild resume "el daño colateral" fundamental causado en el curso de la invasion consumista en una expresion tan incisiva como sucinta: "la materialización del amor".

En la historia del mundo, nunca antes los no-lugares han ocupado tanto espacio". Los