The consumption society has made us feel that happiness…

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put something in…

— Jeff Koons

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish…

— Russell Means

“Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they…

— Sinclair Dumontais

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In my view, dissatisfaction is implicit in the fabric of consumerism.”

— Dave Bruno

Just when you thought multi-nationals and crazed consumerism were too big to fight, along comes Naomi Klein with facts, spirit, and news of successful…

— Gloria Steinem

“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the…

— Robert Bringhurst

One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep…

— Dora Russell

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

— Thomas Jefferson

The pharma pricing system was not built on the idea of consumer engagement. It was built... on market efficiencies. It was not built on…

— Heather Bresch

“We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch