We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends…

— Kelly Cutrone

“I’m not a consumer, because consumers are consumed with shopping. No, I prefer shoplifting.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are…

— Kelly Cutrone

“Suppose every photo of me ever taken was an infinitesimal piece? Every magazine ad, every negative, every frame of motion picture film - another…

— David J. Schow

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

— Bryant H. McGill

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists, we are…

— Wendell Berry

Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world.…

— Stuart L. Hart

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I…

— Cynthia Heimel

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass…

— Vaclav Havel

In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed.…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

— Anita Roddick

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish…

— Russell Means