Assumption Quote by David Foster Wallace

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not…

— David Bowie

“To escape consumerism and conformity, you must turn your back and ignore the mainstream culture. The shackles when then fall away, the machines will…

— David McRaney

“To join the makers of the world is always to feel at least a little more self reliant, a little more omnicompetent. For everyone…

— Michael Pollan

“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the…

— Jeff Brown

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

— Ludwig von Mises

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out…

— Gad Saad

“This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.”

— Blake Nelson

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Our ego is stroked and cultivated to the point we don’t even notice that we are being manipulated by advertising departments and huge corporations.…

— David Carlyle

Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

— Jonah Sachs

“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…

— Murray Bookchin

The Ideal Consumer is someone who is constantly dissatisfies, constanly needs more and more products in order to feel better.

— Jean Kilbourne