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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.


Raoul Vaneigem

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Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
A.E. SAMAAN That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in te...
CHARLES E. WILSON A stronger dollar increases U.S. dollar purchasing power.
STEVE MNUCHIN Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our next step is to create purchase power agreements.
JEFF DEREN The company is so big and its purchasing power is so huge... it has the power to keep prices low for...
BERNARD SOSNICK Real discretionary purchasing power has picked up this year, and is relatively strong.
MICHAEL NIEMIRA John Roberts' purchase is the third-largest voluntary green power purchase in the state of Minnesota...
BLAINE COLLISON The strength of currency of the nation is not determined by comparing it with peers, but by the abil...
DR HITESH C SHETH Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.
JEFF ADAMS Business-to-government companies target fewer buyers that have enormous purchasing power and more de...
KEITH ALLEN The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the incr...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs ...
ELIA GERMANI Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing pow...
ART PULASKI Since (then), that $5.15 an hour has lost a lot of purchasing power. It isn't sufficient income for ...
JOHN FREEMAN Knowledge is power.
FRANCIS BACON Things are going better: there is more growth, less deficit, more competitiveness, better margins fo...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, w...
RAOUL VANEIGEM In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, me...
RAOUL VANEIGEM Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially ...
RAOUL VANEIGEM To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
RAOUL VANEIGEM Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
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RAOUL VANEIGEM Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in streng...
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RAOUL VANEIGEM We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams ...
RAOUL VANEIGEM In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always...
RAOUL VANEIGEM People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, ...
RAOUL VANEIGEM Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a gen...
RAOUL VANEIGEM The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the tra...
RAOUL VANEIGEM Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dyi...
RAOUL VANEIGEM In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumptio...
RAOUL VANEIGEM The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist,...
RAOUL VANEIGEM Where Power fails to paralyze with constraints, it paralyses by suggestion, by forcing everyone to u...
RAOUL VANEIGEM What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
RAOUL VANEIGEM Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
RAOUL VANEIGEM In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, me...
RAOUL VANEIGEM The nihilist makes one mistake: he does not realise that other people are also nihilists, and that t...
RAOUL VANEIGEM It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence
RAOUL VANEIGEM There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
RAOUL VANEIGEM If love is under siege, it is because it threatens the very essence of commercial civilization. Ever...
RAOUL VANEIGEM The purchasing power of wages for the factory worker even those for civil servants have been severel...
BEST DOROH Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and sh...
ANITA RODDICK The power to be able to purchase whatsoever you desire is by learning to always positively use the p...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Vodafone has got serious about 3G now. It is using its size and purchasing power to put together the...
BEN WOOD Less-than-expected household spending is a big concern. People are speculating that domestic-demand ...
KATSUNORI HIRAI This [decision to purchase the full license] speaks to the success of our other deployments.
BRUCE JACQUEMARD It's already been working to dampen demand and cut into purchasing power. The longer it stays here, ...
JOSHUA FEINMAN An increase of 5.1 percent is clearly ahead of the inflation rate of 3.4 percent, so we are seeing r...
DAVE BAMBERGER I had my Class B license but had to go back and be certified in power brakes and driving with passen...
BOLIVAR CEVENO Long-term power purchase agreements are very important from an Indian perspective, not only in terms...
JYOTIRADITYA MADHAVRAO SCINDIA From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living value...
ALEX CAMPBELL From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living value...
ALEX CAMPBELL Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share yo...
BLAKE MYCOSKIE We are hoping that on October 19 women will choose that day to not buy any non-essential goods, so t...
JANET HANSEN Consumers' purchasing power for flat-screen TVs will be further released next year, with urban resid...
CAI YING Most are extremely embarrassed and humiliated. They're not used to asking for help. We've given them...
ALAN LEE A lot of people made their first luxury fashion purchase, but at a discount. And that made it an eas...
ASLAUG MAGNUSDOTTIR Hunters are required to purchase a turkey license and stamp at the time they buy an over-the-counter...
ANDREA MEZERA When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placi...
AKIO TOYODA If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of...
MARC FABER People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial ...
PETER SCHIFF Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Unlike Shanghai and Hong Kong, which have numerous tourists to support the retail market, the Taiwan...
MARA WANG The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United St...
JOHN HOEVEN Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge...
ROGER BABSON Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge ...
ROGER BABSON Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge...
ROGER BABSON Americans are not cutting back from the amount of food they purchase. In fact, they are purchasing a...
DIANE OLSON We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable produc...
GUILHERME LEAL HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. H...
ARTHUR MILLER A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
GEORGE ORWELL Spring is the best time to go looking. Prices tend to be lower, the demand is lower. Power purchase ...
BOB ROMANCHECK Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to...
CHARLES E. WILSON The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J. MARTIN KOHE The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J MARTIN KOHE Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
HUEY NEWTON The greatest power is the power to inspire.
LALIT BHOJWANI Faith is power to believe and power to see...
PRENTICE MULFORD The power to tax is the power to destroy.
JOHN MARSHALL The power to tax is the power to destroy
JOHN MARSHALL Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a...
SAMANTHA POWER When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school ...
SAMANTHA POWER I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now...
SAMANTHA POWER Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that...
SAMANTHA POWER The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or cli...
SAMANTHA POWER American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and pro...
SAMANTHA POWER Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly de...
SAMANTHA POWER If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting he...
SAMANTHA POWER My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
SAMANTHA POWER What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is ...
SAMANTHA POWER Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferr...
SAMANTHA POWER When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realiz...
SAMANTHA POWER We are responsible for our incredulity.
SAMANTHA POWER The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evi...
SAMANTHA POWER Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbo...
SAMANTHA POWER

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