““In all buying, consider, first, what condition of existence you cause in the producers of what you buy; secondly, whether the sum you have paid is just to the producer, and in due proportion, lodged in his hands; thirdly, to how much clear use, for food, knowledge, or joy, this that you have bought can be put; and fourthly, to whom and in what way it can be most speedily and serviceably distributed: in all dealings whatsoever insisting on entire openness and stern fulfillment; and in all doings, on perfection and loveliness of accomplishment; especially on fineness and purity of all marketable commodity: watching at the same time for all ways of gaining, or teaching, powers of simple pleasure, and of showing —the sum of enjoyment depending not on the quantity of things tasted, but on the vivacity and patience of taste.””
![“[..] the innate tendency of a society of consumers to instil in their members a willingness to accord other people the same - and no more - respect as they are trained to feel and to show to consumer goods, the objects designed and destined for instantaneous, and possibly untroubled satisfaction…” quote by Zygmunt Bauman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/add/zygmunt-bauman-1861_community_the-innate-tendency-of-a-society-of-cons_3183996.jpg)
![“With what work at you occupied, and for what purpose are you purchased? What sort of bird are you, and with what digestive are you eaten? Pass up this shop of hagglers and seek the shop of Abundance where God is the purchaser [Quran 9:111]. There Compassion has bought the shabby goods no one else…” quote by Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/684/rumi-56_masnavi_with-what-work-at-you-occupied-and-for-w_3001218.jpg)
