Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our…

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

— Joel Salatin

We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning…

— Eve Ensler

As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the…

— Takashi Murakami

“In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more:…

— Esther Perel

“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of a certain…

— Jacques Ellul

“Why sit and stare at a box beaming messages indoctrinating us into consumer culture for hours a day when there are so many more…

— Annie Leonard

“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]”

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Our consumer culture is fed by an increasingly sophisticated advertising industry that likes you, friends you, follows you, adds a plus to your life…

— Leon Lazarus

“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search…

— James Hollis

“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and…

— Matthew Fox

“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them…

— Lionel Shriver

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising…

— Steven Pressfield

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and…

— Slavoj Žižek

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

— Emma Goldman

I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

— Michael Moore