Les Wexner Quotes

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

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.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

Cheap electronics are not built to be repaired. They're just used and then discarded.

When you buy something for $9.99, and you know that it'll fall apart after you wear it once... you're going into the shopping experience knowing that you're renting. So all I'm doing is making the rental process more efficient.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We replace the old in return for something that will serve us better.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.