Quotes About Consumerism

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Rock music carried the Woodstock Nation's banner while television represented much of what the bands and their audience stood against. More than a wasteland, TV was the idiot engine of the Establishment, electronic opiate of the consumerist masses, and thus a favorite object of ridicule and contempt.

Douglas Coupland

Brilliant minds around the world are working to enhance the addictive properties of numerous products.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day.

You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements.

Modern evangelicals like to compare holy things to soft drinks, designer clothes, [and other products in] our modern consumerist culture. The problem with this is not ... the comparison to a created thing. The problem is that it is ... bad poetry. The Bible compares God to very mundane things, but does so with poetic wonder. God "shall come down like rain upon the mown grass; as showers that water the earth.

If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

People overestimate the pleasure they'll get from having more stuff. This does not apply to new rose bushes, crayons, or yarn stashes.

La cultura de masas no ofrece a sus clientes una catarsis emocional ni tampoco una experiencia estética, porque estas cosas requieren esfuerzo. La cultura de masas es, en la mejor de las hipótesis, un reflejo vulgarizado de la Alta Cultura y, en el peor, un íncubo moral, un Kulturkatzenjammer

Materialism is an identity crisis.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

The advertisements during intermissions are the truest reflection of an intermission from life.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.