395 Quotes About Consumerism

We roamed among people blinded by too much color, deafened by too much music, whose palates were dulled by too many tastes, and whose hearts were torn asunder by too much desire.

We can live without technology, but not without people.

Soon the day will come when only the children of billionaires will have the right to a healthy and prosperous life, and all the other children will simply be lost in the cruel exploits of politics and consumerism.

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

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.

Self-gratification to the point of sustaining oneself is healthy, but beyond that, it's not only unhealthy, but downright inhuman.

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

Und ist es nicht ein wenig heuchlerisch jemanden „Ruhe in Frieden“ zu wünschen und dann die Bestattung in Überfluss und Opulenz zu veranstalten?