Quotes About Consumerism

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there's so many things in the supermarket, there's so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, 'Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!'

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"

You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

un jour contraints de consommer un monde dans le quel nous aurons été absents pendant trop longtemps

Für viele Waren gibt es jetzt Plastikverpackungen; das Menschenfleisch aber wird immer noch in Zeitungspapier verpackt verkauft.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

In a consumption-oriented society, your identity is tied more to what you consume than to what you produce. "Consumerism" as a belief system accepts consumption "as the way to self-development, self-realization, and self-fulfillment.

It turns out that I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50%. Do not be tricked, not all yarn is meant to be yours. No matter how good a deal it is.

Did you know that there are $4,000 washing machines? Seriously. If a washer is $4,000 I want it to get the laundry out of my room and bring it back folded after it made me coffee told me it likes my hair.

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

Most people don't care much about enlightenment and the truth. They'd rather watch the Home Shopping Network, and maybe that's another kind of truth.

What the advertisements are telling us on TV is not the truth. Life is not about comfort.

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

Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas.

It's stores, it's the whole thing, all that shit everywhere, 'scuse me, that merchandise, all those goods, and ads screaming at you from all over the place, buy buy buy buy buy, and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, `Can I help you?`, it's all I can do not to scream, `Bitch, you can't even help yourself.

Eukko tarjoilee jättiläiselle härän. Kokonaisen härän. Jättiläinen: Hmm. Maistuu ihan tavalliselta härältä minun suussani. Eukko: Jos minä en sitten enää hanki tätä sorttia. Jättiläinen: Ei tavallisessa härässä ole mitään vikaa. Eukko: Niin, mutta pieni vaihtelu silloin tällöin... Jättiläinen: Sinä olet mainoksen uhri.

Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.

And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history?

The general idea was to sell their software first to rich technophiles and then, gradually, infiltrate the minds of the middle-class owners of suburban tract houses.

As my last New Year's resolution, I had stopped selling people things I didn't think they should buy. For Lent, I had given up my New Year's resolution.