Quotes About Consumerism

It's not simply what you buy," he'd told me as we hovered over Cartier's gleaming glass counters. "It's the whole shopping experience.

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

Veblen espoused the Veblenian opinion that wanting a big house full of cheaply produced versions of so-called luxury items was teh greatest soul-sucking trap of modern civilization, and that these copycat mansions away from the heart and soul of a city had ensnared their overmortgaged owners - yes, trapped and relocated them like pests.

I pledge allegiance, to the marketplace, of the United States of America. TM. And to the conglomerates, for which we shill, one nation under Exxon-Mobile/Halliburton/Boeing/Walmart, nonrefundable, with litter and junk mail for all!

We buy things we do not need to impress people we do not like.

w?a?nie reklamy s? najwi?ksz? przyczyn? porywania si? Finów na w?asne ?ycie. Czy warto ?y?, gdy nie ma si? za co kupi? tych wszystkich wspania?o?ci, jakie co chwila kto? im podtyka pod nos?

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they've never really been challenged on it. We're all consumers, yet we're rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, 'What about all that furniture? You're never even going to sit on it!' I don't want to rattle round in a big house.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it.

Everything is so aggressively marketed at every age: if you're not in Baby Gap, you're not cool. That's how everybody's grown up, so they don't even know it could be another way.

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

Bad shopping habits die hard.