“We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.”

“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

“We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem… We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.”

“We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.”

“When we talk about drugs, we blame the producers, not the consumers. But when we talk about weapons, we blame the consumers, no the producers. The reason consists, as I understand, in the place of power. In the case of drugs, the products are the others, not us; in the case of weapons, the consumers are the others; we limit ourselves to their production.”

“We are but numbers, born to consume resources.”
Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.”

“We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

“We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics.”