Consumption Quotes
Consumption Quote of the day
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.
In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
The goals of content are consumption, then behavior. The goals of social are participation, then behavior.
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
We are going to expand enormously -- our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.