Consumption Quotes

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable future has to be based on stabilisation of both population and consumption.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and day out.

A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.

The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.