Consumerism Quotes

“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless.”

“People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.”

“The discovery of the consumer is perhaps the most revolutionary economic event of our lifetime.”

“The consumer society is directed toward a phony novelty. It is fueled by meaningless choice, tastes are manipulated.”

“The shopping mall is the last great civic space.”

“Utilitarian individualism has a greediness that is as boundless as its wants.”

“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others.”

“Give me convenience or give me death.”

“The more we consume, the less we live.”

“The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she is shopping.”

“And I am a weapon of massive consumption. And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.”

“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product.”

“It's about consumerism with a conscience.”

“A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.”

“People will pay for anything that enhances their image.”

“I was trying to make something that was totally worthless.”

“I'm not a consumer. I'm a creator.”

“The real trouble with the doctor-patient relationship is that the patient is not the patient. He is the consumer.”

“The more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires.”

“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having.”