#consumer

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anything #consumer #desire #digestive #driven

I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody. ↗

— Max Baucus

#believe #companies #consumers #employers #everybody

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

We no longer live life. We consume it. ↗

— Vicki Robin

#money #life

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers. ↗

— Vicki Robin

#consumer #consumerism #money #life

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being. ↗

— Walter Brueggemann

#consumerism #peace #productivity #rest #sabbath

Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#modern-life #violence #life

Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#consumerism #green #money

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) ↗

— Confucius

#china #consumerism #greed #greed