Quotes About Consumerism

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them.

The jolt of a new purchase makes Mummy feel powerful, if only for a moment.

I already have a toothbrush. I don't know why she would buy me another. That woman buys things just to buy things. It's disgusting.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

The accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal. Whoever dies with the most stuff wins. Wins what? is what I'd like to know.

How has God faded out of the mind of this age? Well, the age, like thoughtless children, believed that the toyland of material wealth was a sufficient world; then God faded out, smothered by preoccupation.

We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.

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I couldn't help but wonder: are we pushing the idea of carnival too far, and turning everything into entertainment?

Midnighter: I told you this wasn't going to end well... Bendix: ...but...I did what you...what the Authority...never could...fixed earth... Midnighter: No. You just gave them peace through corporate control and ignorance... through mindless consumerism. Bendix: Bulls*%t! The air is clean...no wars...people are happier...you can't deny...it's a finer world.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Cheap, sentimental things