Pierre Trudeau Quotes

I shop, therefore I am.

These days malls are the cathedrals of the modern world, and old buildings that had character are gone to allow for econo-worship and peso-pilgrimages.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

The mall is my life.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Most human beings are defined in terms of their capacity to consume.

Everything in our world is branded.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

California, the department store state.

In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

The promotional environment is part of the world we live in.

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 think London is one of the best cities to shop in.

Culture in general wants to connect ethical issues with consumerism. And we can see that overflowing into something that is consumed so much, which is sports.

Commercialism in the Western world has got us by the scruff of the neck. It's a technological takeover, and we can't even see it happening because we're too busy enjoying it.

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position.