Consumers Quote by Sheldon Richman

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

— Sheldon Richman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

— Milton Friedman

Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even…

— Ludwig von Mises

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive…

— Murray Rothbard

“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

There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

— Seth Godin

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

— Ayn Rand

The question is how do you do it [more consumer protection] so that it actually works that way? And that takes analysis, and sometimes…

— Jamie Dimon

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually…

— Chrystia Freeland

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring…

— Ludwig von Mises