Consumers - Consumption Quotes

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Give the lady what she wants.

Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we’ll just basically change human desires, I think that that’s too difficult.

I don’t think it’s realistic to say that people are utterly going to change their lifestyle because of concerns about climate.

Traditional licensing — beauty, fragrance, accessories — used to be the things that would help cash flow. Those markets have shrunk. Designers have to look at themselves and say I’m willing to take the risk and break from tradition. For designers today, what are alternative products or content that we can build? I believe brands […]

Work to survive; survive by consuming; survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

We should work to become, not to acquire.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Certainly the goal of adding to our material comforts and our leisure time has not filled our lives. Are we not beginning to yearn for something beyond ourselves?

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.