William Wordsworth Quotes

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

Anybody who probably lives alone and they have three or four cars, that's probably somebody that's spending a lot of money that they don't need to.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

If you throw money around like confetti, it just becomes shallow and meaningless.

The Happy Warrior of Squandermania.

We have a bad habit. We buy what we want and beg what we need.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!

We buy too much stuff we just don't need. We're trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

Spending is an addiction.

Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.