Community Quote by Noam Chomsky

“There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce”

— Michele Jennae

“Our fragile planet cannot tolerate a growing population of affluent consumers. Technology and “free markets” will not save us. We cannot wait for governments…

— Anonymous

“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the…

— Jeff Brown

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

— William S. Burroughs

People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.

— Mitch Kapor

“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…

— Murray Bookchin

“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was capitalism at…

— Michael Lewis

“If we rebuild our communities and begin to derive more meaning and a sense of the good life from them, many of us are…

— Naomi Klein

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy.”

— Bell Hooks

“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