{"quotes":[{"text":"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","buy","buyer","buyers","capitalism","childfree","childless","collapse","communism","consumer","consumerism","consumers","credit","debt","deep","democracy","dictum","dictums","economies","economy","enjoy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","karl-marx","made-me-think","make-you-think","marxism","materialism","maxim","maxims","own","ownership","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","realization","realize","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","socialism","socialist","socialists","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world-economies"],"id":25717,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.","author":"David Cronenberg","tags":["art","consumer","meaning","writers","writing"],"id":29956,"author_id":"David+Cronenberg"},{"text":"...The higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.","author":"Michael R. Solomon","tags":["anxiety","business","consumer","consumer-culture","psychology"],"id":30321,"author_id":"Michael+R.+Solomon"},{"text":"People don't want anything for FREE unless the price is not reasonable.","author":"Mohith Agadi","tags":["consumer","consumer","life","life","mohith-agadi","people","quote","quotes","by-mohith"],"id":72511,"author_id":"Mohith+Agadi"},{"text":"People don't want anything for FREE unless the price is not reasonable.","author":"Mohith Agadi","tags":["consumer","consumer","life","life","mohith-agadi","people","quote","quotes","by-mohith"],"id":72511,"author_id":"Mohith+Agadi"},{"text":"With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.","author":"Reid Hoffman","tags":["consumer","internet","launch","product","release","time"],"id":82318,"author_id":"Reid+Hoffman"},{"text":"Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is caught in miniature. The genius of the artist entangles perpetrators and victims in a sticky web of perverse delights, in which exploitation becomes collusion, the ripples of guilt spread outward, and the real criminal slips away. In the end, responsibility is lodged firmly with the consumer, forced – he must confess – by his own perverse desires, to buy into the values of this particularly black market.","author":"Jennifer Birkett","tags":["collusion","consumer","crime","criminal","decadence","guilt","lorrain","perversion"],"id":119738,"author_id":"Jennifer+Birkett"},{"text":"I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.","author":"James G. Stavridis","tags":["i am","social","consumer "],"id":138419,"author_id":"James+G.+Stavridis"},{"text":"In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.","author":"Jennifer Birkett","tags":["artists","consumer","decadence","decadent","diginty","disempowerment","masochism","murder","self-disgust","voyeurism"],"id":159393,"author_id":"Jennifer+Birkett"},{"text":"More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.","author":"Pope Francis","tags":["work","people","consumer "],"id":166777,"author_id":"Pope+Francis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}