Association Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness that 'purchasing…

— Pope Francis

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

— Ludwig von Mises

“Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts across received…

— Philip G. Cerny

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

— Anita Roddick

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product.

— Sung Kang

We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species. We have…

— Maude Barlow

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the…

— Kofi Annan

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

— Christine Lagarde

“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

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2)…

— Charles C. Mann

The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners…

— Anita Roddick

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market…

— David Korten