395 Quotes About Consumerism

A woman is against her man making decisions when he is angry, except when the decision is to marry her, or to buy her a gift.

The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their goals by purchasing goods and services....What people do or make but will not or cannot put up for sale is as immeasurable and as invaluable for the economy as the oxygen they breathe.

Если индивидуальность критически относится к произведению, то и произведение критически относится к индивидуальности

If we're only going to eat the prime cuts of young animals, we're going to have to raise & kill a great many more of them. And indeed, this has become the rule with disastrous results for both the animals & the land... If we are going to eat animals, it behooves us to waste as few and as little as we possibly can. Something that the humble cook-pot allows us to do.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

It is only when a company cares for its consumers as much as the consumers care for its products or services, can we create a healthy consumer culture – or else, corporate irresponsibility and consumer stupidity will only create a shallow, snobbish, insecure and ignoramus society.

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

Most women sell sex; most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).