Quotes About Consumerism

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

Green cars could be made of pure refined nonsense and fueled by bright green hot air combined with the broken and destroyed dreams of every nonhuman on earth, and they'd still be destructive.

Well, even if we had the money, and even if solar power were a social good, it's not a planetary good. And that's the point. Industrial solar energy doesn't help the world. It's just another way to power industrial capitalism. At root, it's an industrial product designed and built in the global capitalist marketplace to make a profit. Like other products, it leaves behind the wreckage of destroyed land, poisoned water, and devastated communities.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

Much of what passes for gratitude today appears to be a sort of secular prosperity gospel.

There would certainly be wide agreement that more than 4 billion of the world's 7 billion people are very far from having enough. At least 2 billion do not have enough to eat, do not have adequate housing and water, are unable to educate their children or afford health care. These "bottom of the pyramid" billions can hardly be considered greedy when they aspire to be consumers and buy the global brands that signal joining the modern economic world.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

It is foolish to hold tightly to material possessions. We do not own them, but they can own us.

Publicul alege ce e mai "tare", ceea ce ofer? o pl?cere practic?, palpabil?, imediat?. ?i care nu-l cost? oboseal?. ?i care nu d? de lucru creierului.

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

You live in El Paso, you're a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn't change you. You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long. It's just a stupid dopamine hit

People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long.

People buy things in the hope that it will make them feel better," said Blair. "It gives you a momentary boost, just buying it, but not for long. It's just a stupid dopamine hit whereby I tell you things are going to be great and you fantasize that they are and you feel better.

The new MX-5 is like the new Ford Mondeo and the Subaru Legacy Outback. It is one of those cars that's absolutely brilliant ... and nobody buys it. You never see one on the road.

I look at everyone in their Honda CR-Vs and their BMW X3s and their Audi Q3s and I think, Are you all mad? An ordinary estate or hatchback costs less to buy and less to run and is nicer to drive, more comfortable and just as practical. But it doesn't take up so much bloody space.