Beings Quote by James Howard Kunstler

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as "consumers." OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their…

— James Howard Kunstler

I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The…

— James Howard Kunstler

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

— Jennifer Pahlka

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

— Bryant H. McGill

Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.

— Annie Leonard

“Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have no real…

— Byung-Chul Han

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

— Lily Tomlin

Consumers don't think how they feel. They don't say what they think and they don't do what they say.

— David Ogilvy

We are all consumers and should all be producers.

— Charles Lindbergh

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

— Stanley Marcus

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

— Steve Largent

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

— Lewis Hyde