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
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
Harry Hay
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Wim Wenders
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
Christopher Lasch
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Christopher Lasch
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill Bryson
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
Christian Bale
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Trevor Dunn
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ben Nicholson
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Christopher Lasch
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
Edward Bond
We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
Emma Thompson
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