Desire Quote by Russell Brand

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

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

— Flint McGlaughlin

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are…

— James Buchan

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

— Susie Orbach

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

— John Jay Chapman

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

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

— John Stuart Mill

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

— Brad Pitt

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general…

— David F. D'Alessandro

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic…

— Todd Gitlin

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

“Why do we market to people the way we hate to be marketed to?”

— Scott Stratten