Quotes About Consumerism

But the world of the eye is causing us to live increasingly in a perpetual present, flattened by speed and simultaneity. Visual images have become commodities, as Harvey points out: 'a rush of images from different spaces almost simultaneously, collapsing the world's spaces into a series of images on a television screen […] the image of places and spaces becomes as open to production and ephemeral use as any other [commodity].

een maatschappij waarin het er alleen nog om ging om tijdens de grote uitverkoop van waarden en normen de eigen schaapjes op het droge te krijgen.

One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

I love clothes and going to supermarkets. I spend hours walking around the aisles looking at ingredients.

Filmstars endorse beauty products, which at times they might not even use. We endorse the product and make innocent people in India spend their money on buying the same products.

Innovative companies have started to realize there are not enough 'green consumers' willing to pay more for something just because it's green.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.

People look at Instagram and say they want money, they want this, they want that.

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.

How could they all just casually drink Coca-Cola when one sip, and it tasted like musty trunks? How on earth could anyone eat a hamburger unless they were starving?

I started thinking about how it's actually hard to love Barbie the way she is now. She is very tough, so much plastic. She's not cuddly at all. She can't even put her arms around you. You have to do things for her: worship her, dress her, buy her things. She wants everything. She is very greedy and needy. That's how they get you to spend more money.

Other examples of fads are hula hoops, mood rings, flip-up sunglasses, and umbrella-hats.

No picture is made to endure nor to live withbut it is made to sell and sell quicklywith usura, sin against nature,is thy bread ever more of stale ragsis thy bread dry as paper.

The public will buy a certain amount of poetry if you give them their striptease." -- Ezra Pound

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

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