Quotes About Consumerism

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

Shopping figures as the antithesis of property in this sense, in that it represents a pure mobility of selves and objects. One moment you are this, have this; the next you move on. In this slide from the compulsory to the compulsive, there are no duties, no continuities, no consequences and no history, only a succession of shopping instants.

Self-service' puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the

It's up to all of us, the consumers, to take charge of our health. It's almost like voting. It's your responsibility.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

It makes me sad that corporations and media and Hollywood conspire to make people feel terrible about their bodies from the second they wake up, so I sort of try to subversively undercut that.

When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.'

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

You go into Wal-Mart, and you see stuff you typically wouldn't see anywhere else.

Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

I love Wal-Mart, and not just because my record is there. You can get some things there that you cannot find at Saks or Bergdorf's or other upscale stores.

I think Kathie Lee Gifford had a line at Wal-mart, and Monica Lewinsky had a line of handbags.

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

I can walk all day in malls, shopping centres, high streets - I love it.

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

A pink sneaker is like walking down the street at five miles per hour with a Starbucks in your hand. Nobody is getting in your way.

I'm not a big fan of free to play. And this is just me, but when I buy something, I don't like the idea that I start playing for free, but each time I want to do something a little more interesting or progress, I have to pay. I'd rather pay up front.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.