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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
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
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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