#sum

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#heart #improvement #mass #merchandising #product

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more. ↗

— Jude Law

#anyway #around #beyond #bit #bracket

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#comes #difference #durable #electricity #expensive

People find life entirely too time-consuming. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#find #life #people #time-consuming #too

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#correct #enable #get #good #learn

My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#between #consumer #difference #diversity #important

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#consumerism #crowds #extreme #go #hate

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#boxing #career #good #had #i