Famous quotes containing the words purchasing power, constant, purchasing and/or power:
“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part:
No, nor for a constant heart!”
—Unknown. Love Not Me for Comely Grace (l. 1–4)
“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value.... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.”
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)