Consumerism Quotes

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

The decadent artist markets other people's pain

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.

Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

The vain man buys to impress, but the REAL man buys to fulfil a need.

Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have 'a dream' sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.

Don’t obsess over having the 'latest' version of a product. For there was a time that the previous version was the latest.

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

Escape is a commodity like anything else