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“from the beginnings of history, we have used the critique of consumption to confirm ourselves as essentially good and moral beings. Once upon a more religious time it was common to translate this into an actual asceticism, and I still think it gives us reason to lash out against a consumption we can’t seem to control even in ourselves.”
― Daniel Miller, Consumption and Its Consequences

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“If you want to know what the English really think about consumption, ignore what they say, but look at what they do.”
― Daniel Miller, Consumption and Its Consequences

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“By ‘consumer society’, I mean one in which commodities are increasingly used to express the core values of that society but also become the principal form through which people come to see, recognise and understand those values.”
― Daniel Miller, Consumption and Its Consequences

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