395 Quotes About Consumerism

To predict the impact of an advertisement or a product, based on neurological predispositions and real-time brain activities, is the purpose of the field of "Consumer Neuroscience" or in simple terms "Neuromarketing".

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

In many cases you are not buying a product but an “identity enhancer.” Designer labels are primarily collective identities that you buy into. They are expensive and therefore “exclusive.” If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.

I hate department stores. They're too bright, too loud, and too crammed full of junk that nobody needs. Whenever I'm forced to spend time in one I start thinking about how consumer culture is just one long, expensive, planet-killing distraction from the fact that we're all going to die eventually.

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

Hiding some people’s possessions would reveal the depth of their shallowness.

Consumerism is based on the illusion that you can fill spiritual or emotional emptiness with physical products.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than owning material things. I also see art as something people will do rather than consume, and do it as a natural part of their lives; creative endeavors are a form of profound spiritual satisfaction.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.