{"quotes":[{"text":"These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.","author":"John Muir","tags":["commercialism","greed","nature"],"id":31619,"author_id":"John+Muir"},{"text":"If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["bromance","commercialism","core","core-of-the-soul","core-values","devil","god","humor","humour","job","materialism","mm","money","rat-race","religion","rockstar","sarcasm","sarcastic","sarcastic-humor","sarcastic","satan","society","work","working","worship","yaoi"],"id":47581,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness.","author":"J. Rufus Fears","tags":["beauty","commercialism","culture","tackiness"],"id":53911,"author_id":"J.+Rufus+Fears"},{"text":"If you accept mass production, you accept that a small number of people will supervise the daily existence of a much larger number of people. You accept that human beings will spend long hours, every day, engaged in repetitive work, while suppressing any desires for experience or activity beyond this work. The workers' behaviour becomes subject to the machine. With mass production, you also accept that huge numbers of identical items will need to be efficiently distributed to huge numbers of people and that institutions such as advertising will arise to do this. One technological process cannot exist without the other, creating symbiotic relationships among technologies themselves.","author":"Jerry Mander","tags":["capitalism","commercialism","mass-production","technology"],"id":68780,"author_id":"Jerry+Mander"},{"text":"That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["commercialism","credit","evil","money"],"id":96591,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["civilization","commercialism","modernization","nature","tradition"],"id":137852,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Since inception, the IPL has worn its brand value like a corroboration of inner virtue. On the eve of this tournament, under the headline 'Brand IPL touches the sky', the league's website reverberated with the announcement that Brand Finance, a branding consultancy, had valued the brand value of the IPL brand at $4.13 billion worth of brand—which is a lot of brand, brand-wise.","author":"Gideon Haigh","tags":["branding","commercialism","cricket","indian-premier-league"],"id":141858,"author_id":"Gideon+Haigh"},{"text":"It is easy to put down Frances Trollope as a Tory embittered by her American business failure. But her observations on American manners, confirmed by many other observers foreign and domestic, actually provide a sharply drawn picture of daily life in the young republic. Most observers at the time agreed with her in finding Americans obsessively preoccupied with earning a living and relatively uninterested in leisure activities. Not only Tories but reformers like Martineau and Charles Dickens angered their hosts by complaining of the overwhelmingly commercial tone of American life, the worship of the 'almighty dollar.' Americans pursued success so avidly they seldom paused to smell the flowers. A kind of raw egotism, unsoftened by sociability, expressed itself in boastful men, demanding women, and loud children. The amiable arts of conversation and cooking were not well cultivated, foreigners complained; Tocqueville found American cuisine 'the infancy of the art' and declared one New York dinner he attended 'complete barbarism.' Despite their relatively broad distribution of prosperity, Americans seemed strangely restless; visitors interpreted the popularity of the rocking chair as one symptom of this restlessness. Another symptom, even more emphatically deplored, was the habit, widespread among males, of chewing tobacco and spitting on the floor. Women found their long dresses caught the spittle, which encouraged them to avoid male company at social events. Chewing tobacco thus reinforced the tendency toward social segregation of the sexes, with each gender talking among themselves about their occupations, the men, business and politics; the women, homemaking and children.","author":"Daniel Walker Howe","tags":["almighty-dollar","america","american-critics","american-culture","commercialism","frances-trollope","tobacco"],"id":163664,"author_id":"Daniel+Walker+Howe"},{"text":"He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["commercialism","commercialization","commercialized","corporate","corporate-culture","corporate-greed","fame","fame-and-fortune","greed","hype","marketing","mediocrity","music","popstars","popular","popular-culture","popularity","rebel","rebellion","shallow","shallow-apperances","shallowness","vain","vainglory","vanity"],"id":177403,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.","author":"Lewis Grizzard","tags":["commercialism","drinking","humor"],"id":184380,"author_id":"Lewis+Grizzard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}