Consumer culture Quote by Tibor Kalman Download Open image “Consumer culture is contradiction in terms” — Tibor Kalman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumer culture Consumers Contradiction Culture Term
“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as a producer… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“It is only when a company cares for its consumers as much as the consumers care for its products or services, can we create… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are. — Faith Popcorn Copy Share Image
The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products. — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but also the… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Just because there are lots of them doesn't mean that it isn't a privilege to live in a time when you can buy them… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the… — Matthew Fox Copy Share
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided… — James Hollis Copy Share
“[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
“The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries abandoned the idea of spiritual or intellectual happiness in order to have this material happiness, consisting of a certain number of essential consumer goods. And hence, in the nineteenth century, happiness was linked to a well-being obtained by mechanical means, industrial means, production. The new thing that Saint-Just spoke about was that, in the past,… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“In a policy shift which the historian Guy de la Bedoyere has compared with Western Imperialism, the Romans converted militant Britons to their way… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
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