“Luxury items are those things that are mass-produced by a third party and marketed to us to purchase so that we can express our individuality. ”

“It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of the market place...”

“We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too”

“The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.”

“He hates chain stores and fast-food restaurants, mass-produced items and fashionable clothes - any instance of something that is repeated across the world regardless of local context. These things deny the uniqueness of each moment and each person. They function as if we were all printed out of plastic like egg boxes, and they try to make us function the same way. They are the intrusion of perfection into our grubby, smelly, sweaty living place.”

“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if we understood the social consequences of our purchases or investments and if we knew all other consumers and investors would join us in forbearing from certain great deals whose social consequence were abhorrent to us.”