Quotes About Consumerism

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Pre-forty, you can wash your face with Tide and use Vaseline for moisturizer, toss on a little mascara and lip gloss, and you're a friggin' cover girl. Those of us on the slippery slope that is the Other Side of Forty can testify-- those days are so over. You pore over labels promising everything short of actual rebirth-- you will buy most of them for an average of $450 per quarter once-- and none of them will work. You will still be getting older and poorer with every passing purchase.

I think of a man in the voting booth who hesitates between two levers as if he were pausing between competing tubes of toothpaste in a drugstore," Reeves explained. "The brand that has made the highest penetration on his brain will win his choice.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

Once we demanded two chickens in every pot, then two cars in every garage. Now families want two homes—one a retreat for weekends and vacations—and maybe a boat or an airplane. So it follows that they need two pay checks.

What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in the spiritual domain except as a consumer of someone else's God?

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Ése es el grave problema de esta sociedad: está llena de deseos de consumir y de aparentar, pero hay muy pocas ganas de ser.

For three straight years—1972, 1973, and 1974—bicycles outsold cars in the United States.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

Her cupboards are crammed with Cappuccino mix. No one needs Cappuccino mix. It's not diginified. She watched 'Super Size Me' and went straight to McDonald's. She did the Atkins Diet, "but with potatoes.

nos sentíamos rodeados de cosas ausentes que tendríamos derecho a comprar más tarde.

la libertad tenía rostro de centro comercial

People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

We the people have the power to decide who we want to see in our advertisements and how we want the world to be portrayed. If we show that being ethical and being diverse is profitable, they're going to market to us.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

When I'm 18, I can finally order that paid programming stuff on TV. Like it always says, 'Must be 18 or older to call,' so I'll be able to call! I can finally buy some blenders from the TV.

When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.

In the '80s everything was accepted and there was a kind of euphoria. The '90s will be the balance-sheet decade, and only those who give the consumer what they promise will survive.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.