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Get me out of this irritating natural stuff and back to the mall!
- Tourist, quoted in Shopping Tourism, Retailing and Leisure

Why buy new when used will do?
- Toolbarn advertisement, New Zealand

Never underestimate the entertainment value of shopping.
- Joan Griffith, tour guide and craft store owner

What value does an object have when you can buy 10 more exactly the same in an instant?
- Bernadette Murphy, Zen and the Art of Knitting

A souvenir is a reminder of a place where you are not.
- Wonderfalls

Be careful of making your journey a shopping trip.
- Conversation

Let's not make a list of diamonds we cannot buy.
- Popular saying

Can we have sustainable transportation with so many automobile commercials?
- Conversation

A lot of tourists have a consumer attitude -- what can I get, instead of what can I learn. We have to put aside our own cultural biases and learn as much as possible from the people we visit. I find that if you stay long enough, learn the language, you get a sense of who locals are as people.
- Clay Hubbs, publisher of Transitions Abroad, quoted in Rethinking Tourism

Our enormously productive economy . . . demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption . . . we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.
- Victor Lebow, cited in The Story of Stuff

In the market place, for practical reasons, innumerable qualitative distinctions which are of vital importance for man and society are suppressed; they are not allowed to surface. Thus the reign of quantity celebrates its greatest triumphs in 'The Market.' Everything is equated with everything else. To equate things means to give them a price and thus to make them exchangeable. To the extent that economic thinking is based on the market, it takes the sacredness out of life, because there can be nothing sacred in something that has a price. Not surprisingly, therefore, if economic thinking pervades the whole of society, even simple non-economic values like beauty, healthy, or cleanliness can survive only if they prove to be 'economic.'
- E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

Without a place to sell local products, farmers lose hope. And without local food traditions, people lose hope. If you don't dream, you don't exist. So let's dream together.
- Kamal Mouzawak, founder of the farmers' market in Beirut, a city which has lost almost all of its public gathering places, which makes the farmers' market so vital. Source: Gathering to Celebrate Food Made the Old, Slow Way - New York Times

Please stop referring to yourselves as consumers. Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. As long as you are using the word 'consumer' in the public discussion you are degrading the discussion we are having and we are going to continue being clueless.
- James Howard Kunstler, The tragedy of suburbia

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