Consumerism Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch Download Open image ““We consumer and become exactly what we create. In all times.”” — Lidia Yuknavitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumerism Creativity Time
“Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we are selling is our unique selves.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Consumerism is the one thing that gives us our sense of values. Consumerism is honest, and teaches us that everything good has a barcode.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“What other nations fail to recognize in us--our consumerism--is that we don't simply want to own everything, we want to be everything.” — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
“For someone growing up in America now, there are few available alternatives to the cool consumer worldview.” — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“We are all products of the places we are raised, the people who love us or have power over us, and the things we… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“This man was gorgeous. I'm mentioning this because women live their lives secretly waiting for their lives to become movies. We act like men… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s last wish turned out to be love: may I be consumed by the simplicity and purity of a love story, any love, base… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power. Our existence makes my eyes hurt.” — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It may be true too that I would not have encountered the most important books and art and ideas of my life had I… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I might think that equality has been achieved, there is no power relation going on in terms of class, race, or gender, I might… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Salesmanship is usually the art of making it the prospect’s problem, the salesperson’s need or desire to earn money.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image