Consumer Culture Quotes

• I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

  Michel Gondry

  Space, Culture, Contradiction

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

  Ivan Illich

  Two, Envy, Addiction

  Tools for Conviviality ch. 3 (1973)

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• Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

  Tibor Kalman

  Culture, Contradiction, Term

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• Vemos a nuestros clientes como invitados a una fiesta, y nosotros somos los anfitriones. Nuestro trabajo diario consiste en mejorar cada aspecto importante de la experiencia del cliente.

  Jeff Bezos

  Éxito, Empleo, Empresa

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Entrevista con Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. 2 de agosto de 2004.

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• Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Generosity, Culture, Satisfaction

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.94, B&H Publishing Group

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• America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

  Palomitas Faith

  America, United States, Popcorn

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby

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• I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.

  Michael Moore

  Culture, Next, Caught

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• If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.

  Marva Dawn

  Christian, Would Be, Culture

  Marva J. Dawn (1999). “A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World”, p.88, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

  James Hollis

  Black And White, Journey, Today

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• En los bosques del centro de la India y en muchísimas zonas rurales se está librando una enorme batalla. Millones de personas están siendo expulsadas de sus tierras por empresas mineras, por presas, por empresas de infraestructuras, y se está librando una enorme batalla. No se trata de personas que hayan sido cooptadas por la cultura del consumo, por las nociones occidentales de civilización y progreso. Luchan por sus tierras y sus medios de vida, se niegan a ser saqueados para que alguien en algún lugar lejano pueda "progresar" a su costa.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lucha, Tierra, Gente

  "Arundhati Roy: 'Las personas que crearon la crisis no serán las que aporten una solución'". Entrevista con Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. 30 de noviembre de 2011.

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• We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing with the economy. Second, there must be a very deep reconsideration of our way of life. We cannot simply adopt American-style consumer culture. To Islamize that is to de-Islamize Islam.Thirdly, it is important for us to understand the economy and the environment are common challenges for everyone. This is where the singularity of Islamic principles needs to join the universal values that we share with others.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Challenges, Style

  Fuente: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Invierno

  Generations, Culture, Rebellion

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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• We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.

  Eve Ensler

  Powerful, Real, Self Esteem

  "La gran idea: Eve Ensler". Entrevista con Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. 12 de junio de 2013.

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• En la cultura consumista del matrimonio, los compromisos duran mientras la otra persona satisfaga nuestras necesidades. Seguimos creyendo en el compromiso, porque sabemos que las relaciones comprometidas son buenas para nosotros, pero poderosas voces que nos llegan de dentro y de fuera nos dicen que somos unos pringados si nos conformamos con menos de lo que creemos que necesitamos y merecemos en nuestro matrimonio. La mayoría de los baby boomers y sus descendientes llevamos en la cabeza la voz interiorizada de la cultura del consumo, que nos anima a dejar de trabajar tanto o a salir de un matrimonio que no satisface nuestras necesidades emocionales actuales.

  William J Doherty

  Bebé, Poderoso, Creer

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• What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

  Philip Yancey

  Media, Space, Church

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

  Kathleen Norris

  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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• Formo parte de la cultura del consumo. Formé parte de la generación del baby boom. Tengo un coche cuando no debería, un par de ordenadores; no puedo ser anticonsumista en ese sentido.

  John Elkington

  Bebé, Pareja, Coche

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

  John Seabrook

  Friday, 4th Of July, People

  "Pregunte al autor en directo: John Seabrook on Crowds". chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 28 de enero de 2011.

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major industry and the middle class bought radios to hear the ads and cars to get to the stores. ... But there is no question that the consumer culture had begun to crowd out all other cultural possibilities by the years following World War II.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Years, Class

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). "MIEDO A CAER", Pantheon

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• As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Uprising, Skulls

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.32, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reflection, Wish, Culture

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• There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible

  Slavoj Žižek

  Gobierno, América, Política

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• La realidad es que una cultura de consumo que desecha sus iPhones por una nueva versión cada nueve meses es completamente insostenible, porque la Tierra ya ha alcanzado el punto de inflexión. La Huelga General intenta personalizar estos temas y animar a los oyentes a buscar un nuevo modelo.

  Justin Sane

  Realidad, Problemas, Iphone

  "La huelga general de Anti-Flag es la banda sonora de la América ocupada", por Scott Thill, www.wired.com. 29 de marzo de 2012.

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