Quotes About Consumerism

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.

Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable--it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

I'm just saying—" "You're talking about Black Friday." He nodded. "They're supposed to be our friends," Aviva said. "But are they? Really?

Beaucoup de gens croient que la pelleteuse et la bétonneuse ne pensent pas. ces gens se trompent: elles pensent. Elles pensent que si elles ne travaillent pas, elles ne gagneraient pas d'Argent, et qu'alors leurs esclaves ne pourraient plus acheter l'huile et l'essence sont elles ont besoin pour vivre et continuer à penser aux choses sérieuses

Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction.

If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.

Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

America is a commercial marketplace, and very few people are educated to understand artists or appreciate originality.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

Everyone is hawking products. That's like the highest thing you can achieve now, isn't it? Become some barker. Sinatra hawks beer; he doesn't have enough money, does he?

Does the gospel we preach produce disciples or does it produce consumers of religious goods and services?

We are too easily satisfied with conventional success: bodies, bucks, and buildings. The average Christian resides in the comfort zone of "I pay the pastor to preach, administrate, and counsel. I pay him, he ministers to me. . . . I am the consumer, he is the retailer. . . . I have the needs, he meets them. . . . That's what I pay for.

A single farmers' market, for instance, may not seem very important compared to a Wal-Mart, but farmers' markets are the fastest-growing part of our food economy