Changed Quote by Pier Paolo Pasolini

“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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it…

— Raoul Vaneigem

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

— Ludwig von Mises

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the…

— Larry Siedentop

...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never…

— Brian D. McLaren

“There are four big forces that have played a critical role in manipulating and feeding hyper-consumption: the power of persuasion; the buy now, pay…

— Rachel Botsman

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so…

— Danny Glover

“Redistribution is a tricky business... What freedoms might one have to surrender in order for others to be free? And how to figure it…

— Dayna Tortorici

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within…

— Bertrand Russell

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from…

— Theodor Adorno