Animal Quote by Juliet B. Schor

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create…

— Anonymous

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they…

— Jarvis Cocker

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

— Stephen Colbert

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far…

— Adam Smith

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.

— Kenneth Cole

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

— Leon Levy

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

— Ludwig von Mises

The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price…

— Brennan Manning