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


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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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