“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.”

— Karl Kraus

“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), p. 74

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Czech playwright and publicist 1874–1936

Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“We live in a world which worships the unreal female body and despises real female power. In this culture, where women are commanded to always look available nut never actually be so, where, where we are obliged to appear socially and sexually consumable whilst consuming as little as possible, our most drastic retaliation is to undertake our own consumption: to consume ourselves - and so we do in ever increasing numbers.”

Laurie Penny book Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism

Source: Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2010), Chapter 2

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

Vicki Robin (1945) American writer

“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.”

Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer

La Jornada, México (2 May 2007) http://www.lajornadadeoriente.com.mx/2007/05/02/puebla/s1ret14.php

“We all make mistakes, but when I made mistakes there was no filter between me and the consumer.”

Murray Walker (1923) Motorsport commentator and journalist

The Guardian staff (December 27, 2000) "It's the end of an earache or do I mean era?", The Guardian.
Interviews

“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

“We are monsters, even if we disguise ourselves as ordinary people. We are the children of ordinary people but we are not content with that. Inwardly we are consumed with wickedness, outwardly we are grammar school pupils.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“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.”

Thomas Piketty (1971) French economist

Quoted in Chuck Collins, Nit-Picking Piketty http://inequality.org/nitpicking-piketty/ (2015).
At ASSA http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/b6d6725ea1df49c896fc82465f732e9b1d, 01:40:27.

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

Raj Patel (1972) British academic

Ways to Counter the Excesses of the Market (24:00) http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing#fullprogram FORA.tv

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

George Bernard Shaw book Candida

1890s
Source: Candida, Act I (1898)

“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.”

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