Quote by Annie Leonard

“For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.”

— Mark Edmundson

“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the rights to…

— Elizabeth Willard Thames

“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.”

— Seth Godin

“Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.”

— Bryant McGill

The purer our message, the more compelling it is to consumers.

— Angela Ahrendts

“Our fragile planet cannot tolerate a growing population of affluent consumers. Technology and “free markets” will not save us. We cannot wait for governments…

— Anonymous

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

— Bryant H. McGill

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

— Susie Orbach

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel…

— Chris Jordan

“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of us are…

— Naomi Klein

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

— Russell Brand

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

— Tim Jackson