The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Pussy Riot is against the cult of consumerism and the commercialization of art. Our performances were always open for everyone and anyone can see our video clips for free on the Internet.
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.
Consumerism is our national religion.
TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Gentrification and consumerism. . . have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.
No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
The aim of development must be neither producerism not consumerism, but the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, which are not only needs of humanity.
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.
I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.
