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“We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.”

Way Kind Has Beens Self Country Government Able Interest Attention Citizens Ideology Consumers Elites Narcissism Cult Behalf Pernicious Oligarchy Hedonism

Author:Chris Hedges

“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.”

Thinking Way Made Two Play Wanted Song Hours Week Computer Consumers Open Minded

Author:Chris Baio

“I am super passionate about my new business because it has the potential to disrupt the fashion industry in a positive way. Master & Muse is providing a place to buy better. There are many big issues in producing fashion today, and the consumer doesn't fully understand the problems at hand. That is where we come in. We are providing awareness, information, and great fashion.”

“I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.”

Term My Own Watches Behavior Consumers Eclectic

Author:Robert Schwentke

“American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. Thats what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.”

Kind Energy Force India Consumers Firm Elites Globalization

Author:Vandana Shiva

“If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. Its the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.”

“I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?”

Ifs Thinking Want May Country Economy Policy Depends Scared Spending Chinese Consumers Symptoms

Author:David Wessel

“There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.”

Ifs Sometimes Happens Fall Economy Demand Concern Oil Consumers Commodity Symptoms Weakening Commodity Prices

Author:David Wessel

“I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Streets Wall Beats Evidence Financial Protection Primaries Consumers Consumer Protection

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.”

Ifs Thinking Want Values Numbers Demand Achievement Program Accounts Impact Complaining Consumers Streams Milestone

Author:Cary Sherman

“I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.”

Should Trying Ideas Lines Powerful Fronts Who I Am Consumers Nurture Worshippers Really Powerful

Author:Mike Vallely

“When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw India's past as part of an antiquity rendered irrelevant by modernity, which with its science, nation states, free enterprises, and consumer societies was supposed to have solved all problems.”

Firsts Littles States Problem Past Nations Saws Concern Tradition Decided Accounts India Consumers Indian Enterprise Irrelevant Modernity Antiquity Preoccupation Free Enterprise

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.”

Creative Creator Consumers Nerd

Author:Chris Hardwick

“JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.”

World Use Moving Share Management Around The World Consumers Corporations Branches Cash Retail Management Systems Commercial Banks

Author:Jamie Dimon

“And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.”

People Way Ideas Matter Running Used Choices Winning Air Intellectual Hot Spread Coffee Flying Consumers Shops Balloons Coffee Shop Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Seth Godin

“If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to get information about where exactly their clothing is coming from - that's a barrier. We have labels on your eggs, "cage-free hens." They need to get something along those lines to allow the consumer to discriminate.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Would Be Lines Company Information Right Now Labels Consumers Barriers Eggs Clothings Cages Hens

Author:Pietra Rivoli

“The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.”

Thinking Way Children Facts Might Order Car Depends Picks Our Children Consumers Features Traits Norm Unconditional Parental Parental Love

Author:Michael Sandel

“The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.”

Thinking Children Lost Parent Moral Teach Worry Teaching Effects Humility Limits Responsible Consumers Goods Parenthood

Author:Michael Sandel

“My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.”

Kids Differences Moral Achieve Disease Argument Sake Edges Cures Consumers Intervention

Author:Michael Sandel

“Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.”

Giving Kids Goal Principles Edges Consumers Limitless

Author:Michael Sandel

“I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.”

Thinking Would Be Desire Purpose Resources Tragedy Medicine Medical Consumers Satisfying Technological Breakthrough Great Tragedy

Author:Michael Sandel

“Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.”

Should Has Beens Race Expectations Bottom Consumers

Author:Colin Meloy

“John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans showed up in some of the remotest parts of the world.”

World Firsts Products Blue Consumers Gallons John D Rockefeller

Author:Charles R. Morris

“Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.”

Culture Born Generations Middle Consumers Rebellion Punk 80s Daft Consumer Culture Daft Punk

Author:Pedro Winter

“Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.”

Technology Environment Pity Consumers Willingness

Author:Ramez Naam

“One of the functions of literary criticism, or reviewing, generally - and I, most of my reviews actually are not about literature - but one of the functions of that is basically the sort of Consumer Reports function of letting readers know whether this is something they want to read.”

Knows Want Literature Reader Criticism Function Consumers Reports Reviews Literary Criticism

Author:Louis Menand

“Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.”

People Knows Whole Used Literature Opinion Audience College Amount Higher News Bigger Enormous Used To Be Consumers Print Diverse Higher Education

Author:Louis Menand

“The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.”

Different Opportunity Names My Own Exciting Consumers Collections Aesthetic

Author:Reed Krakoff

“What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.”

People Mind Whole Asks Names Goal Doctors Consumers Ads Medication

Author:Frank Luntz

“When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.”

Kind Values Given Selling Consumers Evangelists Selling Something

Author:Mitch Joel

“You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.”

Age Marketing Consumers Efficiency Marketers

Author:Mitch Joel

“We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing with the economy. Second, there must be a very deep reconsideration of our way of life. We cannot simply adopt American-style consumer culture. To Islamize that is to de-Islamize Islam.Thirdly, it is important for us to understand the economy and the environment are common challenges for everyone. This is where the singularity of Islamic principles needs to join the universal values that we share with others.”

“HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites - often from our top-of-the-page headline.”

News Pages Available Consumers Links Consistently Site Headlines Starters

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.”

“The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.”

Ends Views Too Much One Day Models Consumers Consumption Personal Views

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Now the industry is looking at the change in a very real way - to find ways of talking to the consumer much faster. Everything we have is changing with communication - from fashion to newspapers.”

Way Real Talking Fashion Communication Industry Newspapers Faster Consumers Way Of Talking

Author:Donna Karan

“[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."”

Thinking Feels Littles Moments Style Months Six Fingers Consumers Bored Confusing Six Months Snaps

Author:Donna Karan

“It is easier to disrupt consumer finance. It is much harder to disrupt institutional finance, Wall Street. It is very heavily regulated, and because it is institutional finance, you are dealing with incumbents.”

Streets Wall Easier Harder Finance Consumers Incumbents

Author:Brad Katsuyama

“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."”

“The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.”

People Happens Citizens News Presses Consumers Programming

Author:David Folkenflik

“Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.”

Government Pay Patient Consumers

Author:Paul Ryan

“When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.”

Mean Community Higher Consumers Wages Basics

Author:David Rolf

“The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.”

Trying Has Beens States Stories Law Behinds Rights Bills Consumers Corporate Classic Association Senate Lots Of Money Versus Groceries Labeling Money And Power Lobbying Goliath

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping!”

Looks Products Labels Consumers Shopping Gmos

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.”

People Information Theater Consumers Feds Moron

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“Fur is a contentious issue. Meat is a contentious issue. GMOs are a contentious issue. I think this whole thing going on about whether or not products should be labeled if they have GMOs in them - I, as a consumer, would like to know if I'm eating GMO food. If I choose to buy it then it's my choice.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Whole Choices Issues Products Eating Consumers Meat Fur Gmos Contentious Gmo Foods

Author:Billy Corgan

“To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.”

Years Done Huge Industry Demand Years Ago Fishes Consumers Rely Chickens Pens Cows Hunting Ducks Sheep Goats

Author:Sharon Gannon

“One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.”

Way Products Right Now Slavery Impact Consumers Corporate Buying Accountability Infancy

Author:Mira Sorvino

“Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't have here, especially when you leave the city areas it's a spartan life. But what is impressive about it is what is coming about. It's the future that all these socialists look forward to.”

Looks Stills States Suffering United Cities United States Areas Consumers Goods Impressive Cuba Colony Blockades

Author:Huey Newton

“It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.”

Desire Incredibles Primaries Consumers Analysis Incessantly

Author:Russell Brand

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