Consumption Quote by Raoul Vaneigem

The consumer, so it is said, is the king each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done…

— Paul Samuelson

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a…

— Fisher Ames

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

— Henry Ford

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

— Rumi

Every citizen is king under a citizen king.

— Charles Simon Favart

“The privileges of the Nobles of the Sword are not democratic ... Across the country, peasants have been burning crops and châteaux. If the…

— Debra Borchert

“Under democracy, the incentive structure is systematically changed. Egalitarian sentiments and envy are given free reign. Everyone, not just the king, is now allowed…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to…

— Ludwig von Mises

“This economy is based upon consumption, which ultimately serves, not the ordinary consumers, but a tiny class of excessively wealthy people for whose further…

— Wendell Berry

In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function…

— Slavoj Žižek