#purchase

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#dilemma #food-chain #food-regulation #food-safety #ignorance

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. ↗

— Dave Barry

#defined #experts #money #own #personal

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. ↗

— Steve Vai

#brilliance #domain #fascinated #inspired #instrument

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#long #long time #make #me #purchase

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #divine #happiness #infinite #infinitely

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#buy #head #heart #home #investment

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#power #purchase #purchasing #purchasing power

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#call #cast #continue #fix #here

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy? ↗

— Michael Davis

#boots #brown #did #fred #get

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#cannot #happiness #man #misery #purchased