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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

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

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

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.