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 modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.
Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.
Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
Our whole economy has become a waste economy, in which things must be almost as quickly devoured and discarded as they have appeared in the world, if the process itself is not to come to a sudden catastrophic end..
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
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.
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.
There's something quite shocking in this idea that everything is disposable and that people don't care for things anymore.
Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
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.
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
Superdevelopment leads to a throwaway society and to enormous waste. Excessive access to all kinds of things,—sometimes called consumerism—enslaves people and does not make them happy.
On Social Concern
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.
Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
The next step after cheap is free, and after free is disposable.
It's always consoling to know that today's Christmas gifts are tomorrow's garage sales.
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.
I'm not interested in disposable music.
Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.
The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.
