Top 168 Consumerism Quotes & Sayings

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

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

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Consumerism is our national religion.

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end... Man, it occurs to me, is a joyful, buying-and-selling piece of work. I have been wrong, dead wrong, when I've decried consumerism. Consumerism is what we are. It is, in a sense, a holy impulse. A human being is someone who joyfully goes in pursuit of things, brings them home, then immediately starts planning how to get more.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

I think we're becoming a bit less attached to consumerism.

I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.

Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

Hipsters. We all know one. They're those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of 'anti-consumerism,' combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action.

Plastic straws might be everything terrible about American consumerism, individually wrapped. But paper straws put the lie to the belief that we can consume our way out of the problems created by consumerism.

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm the one you stopped your nomadic life for." It's one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it's another thing altogether when you stop having sex with others when you marry. So the marital commitment becomes, "I must be really special. With me, you no longer think you can find better next door." Romantic consumerism is thinking you can't find better, younger or newer.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

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.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

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

There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.