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Consumerism16 quotes
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel,
A boutique, and a swinging hot spot. — Joni Mitchell · 1970This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts. — Lester Burnham · 1999All 16 quotes →Advertising and marketing2 quotes
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. — Tyler Durden · 1999A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. — Dorothy L. Sayers · 1947American life1 quote
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons? — Allen Ginsberg · 1956Attachment (Buddhism)1 quote
The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999Capitalism1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Display of wealth1 quote
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899Economic growth1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Environmental destruction1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Excessive development1 quote
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all. — Ogden Nash · 1932Loss of Eden1 quote
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel,
A boutique, and a swinging hot spot. — Joni Mitchell · 1970Modern life1 quote
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel,
A boutique, and a swinging hot spot. — Joni Mitchell · 1970Over-development1 quote
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel,
A boutique, and a swinging hot spot. — Joni Mitchell · 1970Purpose of life1 quote
This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts. — Lester Burnham · 1999Reputation1 quote
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899Status games1 quote
In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence. — Thorstein Veblen · 1899