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Escape is a consumer goods like another -- Iain Banks
Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods. -- Yuri Andropov
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. -- Dan Lipinski
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods. -- Andrew Mason
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. -- George Carlin
Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050 -- Paul Polman
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods. -- Mitch Kapor
If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector -- John Warren Kindt
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that -- John Warren Kindt
Mother is the dead heart of the family spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches the television. -- Germaine Greer
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need. -- Daniel Pennac
The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less satisfactory than the conditions that prevailed before. -- Ludwig von Mises
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians. -- Steven Pinker
The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place -- Prince Philip
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. -- Pope Francis
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets. -- Alex Berenson
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. -- Peter Singer
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away. -- Pope Francis
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the benefits. We've sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it's appalling. I'm sickened by this bargain. -- Lierre Keith
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). -- J. G. Ballard
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former. -- Samuel P. Huntington
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We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods - like groceries and home heating oil - steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008. -- Jim Himes
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit. -- Tim DeChristopher
The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. -- Charlie Brooker
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. -- Charles W. Pickering
For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer. -- Jochen Zeitz
Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like. -- Bob Buckhorn
In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. -- Larry Elder
The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online. -- Jerry Yang
The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods. -- Lindsey Graham
Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges. -- Alex Berenson
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it. -- Paul Auster
People do care where their food, or other goods, comes from, not merely if the price is right. And that means no business can afford to ignore the impacts their buying practices have on producers and on the perceptions and choices of consumers. -- Julian Baggini
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Beats is inherently different: the company is a consumer electronics company but also a media company; a packaged goods company but also an entertainment company. -- Luke Wood
Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry. -- Thorstein Veblen
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. -- William Stanley Jevons
Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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