Consumer Choice Quotes

• Going green doesn’t start with doing green acts - it starts with a shift in consciousness. This shift allows you to recognize that with every choice you make, you are voting either for or against the kind of world you wish to see... When you assume this as a way of being, your choices become easier. Using a reusable water bottle, recycling and making conscious daily consumer choices are just a few of the ways our incredible cast is green.

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  Ian Somerhalder

  Water Bottles   Choices   Voting  

  "Ian Somerhalder works for environmental change through his foundation". Interview with Laura Moss, www.mnn.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

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  Mark Skousen

  War   Expression   Ideas  

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• What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

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  Zygmunt Bauman

  Self   Choices   Facts  

  Alessandro Balducci, Zygmunt Bauman, Gianluca Bocchi, Paolo Caputo, Mauro Ceruti (2012). “Architettura e Politica. Architecture and politics: italian/english text”, p.87, Gangemi Editore spa

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• Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

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  David Suzuki

  God   Spiritual   Time  

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• Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

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  Janet Reno

  Choices   Microsoft   Window  

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• Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

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  Al Gore

  Choices   Friendly   Rewards  

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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