Jenna Wortham Quotes

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

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.

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

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

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

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.

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.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

People are getting richer all over the world and they are going to want to live the way Americans live. And that is going to place a big strain on our environment and will be a great challenge.

We have grown up in a culture thinking that our energy resources were inexhaustible and without impact.

I don't shop.

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.

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.