“Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.”

“Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.”

“The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.”

“Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulatesriches.”

“The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.”

“Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.”