Consumer Capitalism Quotes

“As for the present-day Festivals they were endless--blurred--going on forever so that no one knew where one had ended in the next begun.”
― Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage

“Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Vanity about physical appearance is an equal-opportunity vice; the males just target different physical traits for amplification and display using different products.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Consumerism has become our most potent ideology because it so contemptuously dismisses our natual human modes of trait display, and it keeps us too busy -working, shopping. and product displaying- to remember what we can signal without all the products.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Fools toast each other's wealth, whereas sages toast each other's health.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Even in the twenty-first century, we still can't buy sane parents, successful siblings, or sensible children. We can't even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong -artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Responsible consumerism is a crucial part of civic duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Bien plus que le vieux désir de sa balader ailleurs, c'est la pression de la société toute entière qui pousse le travailleur à rendre à l'auto ce gain qu'elle lui procure. C'est pour cela qu'elle l'enchaîne à la chaîne, et que pour être sûre qu'il ne la trahira pas, elle le condamne aux travaux forcés de l'achat à crédit. L'auto le lie au travail, et quand le travailleur est bien crevé, elle le mène se distraire là où il doit consommer.”
― Bernard Charbonneau, L'Hommauto

“Comme le souligne un technicien pince-sans- rire : «La marge de sécurité apportée par l'amélioration d'une route est en partie compensée par les risques plus grands que prennent les usagers.»”
― Bernard Charbonneau, L'Hommauto

“Elevated to the status of a credit subject, the consumer believes [in the myth of credit] to see in this fact his own human realization and that of his social dignity. The commodity fetishism embodies in his person as the fetish of being, to whom credit gives a sensible and objective reality: the consumer sees himself in credit as in a mirror reflecting all the human attributes emanating from possession - respectability, honesty, occupational activity, recognized and weighed by social consensus...”
― José Revueltas