Consumerism Quote by Nick van der Leek

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

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through…

— Theodor Adorno

“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly be depleting…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or…

— Dani Shapiro

“We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going…

— Mark Manson

“The problem is that the pervasiveness of technology and mass marketing is screwing up a lot of people’s expectations for themselves. The inundation of…

— Mark Manson

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

— Tim Jackson

“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

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever…

— Russell Brand

“Insecurity is a sign of well-being. It means we haven’t allowed ourselves to take other people for granted, that we remain realistic enough to…

— Alain de Botton