Car Quotes

2020-03-03

I was at a car dealership today where they’d created posters with car-related quotes. I think the quotes were intended to be inspirational but came off more as a sobering commentary on car consumerism. I wonder if the person who created the posters was trolling, copy-pasted from wikiquote without thinking about what the quotes mean, or ?

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.

People recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive, there is something wrong with him.