Top 18 Quotes About American Consumerism
#1. The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.
Alina Stefanescu
#2. It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.
Fareed Zakaria
#3. Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
Aldous Huxley
#4. American consumers benefit from disparity & exploitation. I benefit from disparity & exploitation & so does my family. there is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain" --casey gray - author of Discount - & my New HERO
Casey Gray
#5. Love is not part time and its not conditional. I learned this from my mom.
Jaycee Dugard
#6. One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.
Lewis Carroll
#7. The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
David Foster Wallace
#8. The modern university is the institution through which the next generation's elite is formed. It inculcates the two essential, nonnegotiable principles of the American ruling class: consumerism and relativism.
Jonathan V. Last
#9. I'm overburdened by strange occurrences at the moment.
Gail Carriger
#10. I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
Lauren Greenfield
#11. When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
Native American Saying
#12. The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross,
Morris Berman
#13. Gentrification and consumerism ... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.
Tom Hayden
#15. The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ben Nicholson
#16. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.
Zoltan Istvan
#17. According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized that these are not issues only pertinent to Latin America: poverty, misery, consumerism, etc.
Alex Abreu