Consumerism Quotes

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

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

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

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

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.

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.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

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

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

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

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

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