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Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly.… — Dave Barry
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers. — Vicki Robin
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise.… — William S. Burroughs
As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways… — Richard Kadrey
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive… — Bell Hooks
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag… — Sarah Vowell
I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were… — John Twelve Hawks
Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street… — Naomi Klein
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
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… — Ludwig von Mises
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand… — Wendell Berry
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals… — Noam Chomsky
Escape is a consumer goods like another — Iain Banks
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves — Milton Friedman
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. — Thomas Sowell
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast… — Steven Pinker
Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself… — Russell Brand
Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and… — Marc Bekoff
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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