#consumer

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#boasting #companies #consumers #fix #multinational

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#action #body #cannot #cells #consumers

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#competition #consumer #incentive #only #progress

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#buy #consumerism #getting #improve #lives

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#been #bills #comprehensive #consumers #energy

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#hell #paradise #worker

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

— Milton Friedman

#government #many #more #much #people

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#art #audience #consumer #distance #maintain