Quotes of: Consumerism Keyword

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.

Aloe Blacc

We typically misunderstand what's wrong about consumerism. It's not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consum...

Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do

Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare rare. Venti, two-pump, sugar-free vanilla, non-fat, two Splenda, extra-hot, extra-whip, extra-mocha Mocha and can you put the Splenda in ...

Geoffrey Wood

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Ben Nicholson

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

Harry Hay

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

Emma Thompson

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

Appetites: Why Women Want

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

Christopher Lasch

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

Bryant H. McGill

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

Jeff Bezos

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.

Bruce Feiler

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

Annie Lennox

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

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.

Wim Wenders

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

Trevor Dunn

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.

Christopher Lasch

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

J. G. Ballard

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

John Lydon

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

Bill Bryson

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Okky Madasari

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

Pierre Dukan