Consumers Quote by Iain Banks

“Escape is a commodity like anything else”

— Iain M. Banks

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate…

— David Graeber

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom…

— Clive Hamilton

“In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our…

— Clive Hamilton

If consumers are strong, if consumers are protected, if they can trust the marketplace and feel confident that they're not being cheated here and…

— Richard Cordray

“Escape is a process, not a pill.”

— Beth Kempton

The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free…

— Milton Friedman

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

— Nicholas Johnson

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly…

— Robert Nozick

We can survive without having to be consumer-based all the time.

— Bhumika Chawla

“Consumers love novelty; businesses just call it risk”

— Ben Yoskovitz

“We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.”

— Louise Doughty