Famous quotes containing the words private and/or consumption:
“There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)