Big business never pays a nickel in taxes according to Ralph Nader who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
During the 80s and 90s we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
Most works of art like most wines ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life every hour and minute of every day and you can grasp the source of this paranoia this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and now evolutionary biology.
I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.