Quotes About Consumerism

The American Dream is really money.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

Rock and roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear. There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm.

I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4.

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

If people come to a record store, and they can't find your album, they buy something else.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of citizenship give way to marketized individualism and consumerism.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Show me a mall, and I'm happy.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.