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“Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.”

Long Facts Would Be Nations Democracy Greater Majors Function Profit Cures Consumers Welfare Organized Enterprise Ignored Free Enterprise

Author:Saul Alinsky

“If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.”

Ifs Government Would Be Business Democracy Consumers Disturbing

Author:Kin Hubbard

“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.”

World America Democracy Teacher Standards Consumers Advertisers

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.”

People Democracy Expression Fortune Obvious Consumers Guarantees Distinction Sovereignty Free Market

Author:Faustino Ballve