Big Quote by Hugo Chavez

We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything…

— James Howard Kunstler

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on…

— Rupert Everett

Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's…

— Marc Maron

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy…

— Alice Walker

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of…

— Paul Auster

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

— Jimmy Carter

Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You…

— J. G. Ballard

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than…

— David Mamet

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500…

— Jennifer Granholm

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism…

— Tulsi Tanti

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

— Peter Schiff