Consumerism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

In ancient times, we were users; we used the commodities in accordance to our needs. Using is not sufficient for the modern market; it needs consumers. Consuming means consuming things much more than the natural need of humanity or of any living being. — Lobsang Tenzin

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. — Anita Roddick

What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important? — Deyth Banger

American culture is a sheep culture - long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best - commodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I'm a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus. — Stan Goff Full Spectrum...

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. — Samuel Johnson Taxation No...

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. — Chuck Palahniuk Haunted

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