Consumer Society Quotes

21 Consumer Society quotes by 18 unique authors

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which… — Paul Auster
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. — Julie Burchill
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade… — Germaine Greer
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught… — Ivan Illich
"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference… — Jimmy Carter
The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of… — Stuart Ewen
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the last century, one… — Niall Ferguson
In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation.… — Germaine Greer
In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with,… — Zygmunt Bauman
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated. — Susie Orbach
In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be… — Paul Brand
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society. — Pope Francis
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. — Christopher Lasch
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. — Ivan Illich
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to… — Alan Kay
On the mathematical side, you could in principle build a society in which people were fulfilling their needs and flourishing as human beings in a… — Tim Jackson

Who Wrote These Consumer Society Quotes

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