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• Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Gentleman, Leisure

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1

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• The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mean, Names, Community

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.54, e-artnow

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• We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced ... we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Views, Laughing

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• I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

  Daryl Hannah

  Inspiration, Information, Easy

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• 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

  Space, People, Wish

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• 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

  America, Marketing, Looks

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• The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods,  are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Ideas, Community

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• Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Names, Body

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Wings

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

  William James

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

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• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Toil, Doe

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

  Homer

  Goods And Services

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• We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

  David Mamet

  Excess, Doe, Income

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.8, Penguin

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• If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

  Orestes Brownson

  Men, World, Want

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1965). “Brownson's Quarterly Review”

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• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Moving, Information, Trade

  C. J. Cherryh (1993). “Chanur's Legacy”, p.140, Penguin

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• Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

  Graham Hancock

  Our Society, Society Today, Kind

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• Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

  William Powell

  Military, White, Long

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", 1971.

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• The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

  Steven Tyler

  Crow, May, Hens

  "'American Idol' Recap: Jessica Sanchez Catches 'Biggest Fish' of the Night" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

  John Cassavetes

  Simple, Emotional, Culture

  "Savages: Silence Yourself" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity into real estate, the stock market is setting new heights and consumers are generally stepping out more for luxury goods and services. After many years of pulling back, it was fun to see guests flirting with temptation, whether that was a new home, a new car, a new look or just to learn more about the trends. Others were happy to take in all the action.

  Andrea Savage

  Fun, Real, Home

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• One of the reasons churches in North America have trouble guiding people about money is that the church's economy is built on consumerism. If churches see themselves as suppliers of religious goods and services and their congregants as consumers, then offerings are 'payment.'

  Doug Pagitt

  Religious, Offering, America

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• Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Children, Reading

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• The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Mean, Civilization, Class

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.

  Nick Harkaway

  Exercise, People, Machines

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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• It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to not have to change, and not have to evolve. It encourages us to bury our heads in the sand, or in values that are really morally neutral but that we pretend are moral goods: tradition, community and family for example.

  Lynn Coady

  Giving, Community, Example

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