Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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.
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.
International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports.
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.
