Consumerism is the new religion. Quantity is the new divinity. Advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false desire. – John O’Donohue Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. – Henry Rollins
We live in an era of consumerism and it’s all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. – Aloe Blacc
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. – Ellen Willis
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. – Tim Jackson
