consumerism quotes

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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

You don’t want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

If we didn’t have the Chinese buying things, we’d be on the floor.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

What I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.