395 Quotes About Consumerism

Humans are meant to be loved and objects to be used, but in confusion, we started to use the humans and love the objects - when this changes, everybody will be happy and content.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

If you keep running after possessions – after the so-called pleasures of life, you'll end up as a psychological as well as physiological wreck.

If I had a lot of money, I would buy a lot of things that I don't need.

Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

Many of those who have the most make only the least of what they have.

The degree of our happiness is not determined by (what we regard as) the source of our happiness.

It is quite simple to earn most people’s respect. All you have to do is convince a bank to loan you money to buy a BMW or the like.

What use will money and wealth be to those who possess them when the rivers and land are poisoned, the seas devoid of life and the air polluted beyond tolerance?