Bills Quote by Joey Skaggs

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It…

— Pope Francis

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

— Amelia Barr

The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem…

— Lewis H. Lapham

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

— Karl Kraus

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

— Max Lerner

“Marketing jingles from every angle lure patrons to turn our backs on our locally owned stores, restaurants, and farms. And nobody considers that unpatriotic.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

— George Herbert

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy…

— Laurence J. Peter

“If we purchase items made by underpaid and abused workers, we participate in their exploitation.”

— Julie Clawson

“We’re taught we can pay for everything we need. Our very lives can be purchased, and by extension, we can buy the rights to…

— Elizabeth Willard Thames

There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither…

— Pyotr Kropotkin