Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. 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.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

Children's television has been grossly over-commercialized. The subtle message is, "Buy me! Buy me!

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.