395 Quotes About Consumerism

Generosity is the new consumerism.

Quick reminder for Amazon Prime Day tomorrow: If you didn’t need to buy it at full price, you don’t need to buy it on sale.

Society says you need lots of stuff to be happy. They are wrong.

Consumerism is not bad, but reckless and mindless consumerism is not just bad, but downright injurious to the health of not just the individual, but of the entire society.

I felt as if I were in an exiled and floating world, isolated from all necessities of life except the one of buying things.

When I realized that Unilever owned almost every product in my house, I started becoming more aware of how often we compromise our values for consumption habits, and I made a commitment to at least be mindful of this in evaluating my promotional opportunities and what products and services I was willing to endorse using my name and brand.

Emphasizing a lifestyle based on consumption is the ultimate violence against poor countries.

People should make use of resources that work for them, but as with any act of consumption, carefully considering the necessity and ramifications makes for more mindful, meaningful living.

The United States is the most prosperous nation in the world, and yet our citizenship has been comprehensively reduced to consumerism... Buy and ye shall be happy. But what have we truly purchased? In the words of my favorite poet, Henry David Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” our lives prostrate at the altar of the false gods of our instant-gratification society.