Consumption Quotes

“USA FOOD CONSUMPTION DATA”

— Joel Fuhrman

Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy,

— Charles Eisenstein

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

— John Ralston Saul

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.

— George W. Bush

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

— John Lennon

“Truth is commodity in political consumption.”

— Toba Beta

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

— E. F. Schumacher

Assumption is the biggest human consumption.

— Tasneem Hameed

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

— Mike Huckabee

“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.”

— Anthony Liccione

People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.

— Erykah Badu

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices.

— Shantanu Narayen

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting,

— Andrea Illy

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

— Ahmed Zaki Yamani

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

— Corey Feldman

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what…

— Anonymous

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

— George Will

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

— Joey Sturgis

Pornography. . .overtakes lives, causing loss of the Spirit, distorted feelings, deceit, damaged relationships, loss of self-control, and nearly total consumption of…

— Linda S. Reeves

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause…

— Frances Osborne

“Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption…

— Edward T. Welch

With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

— Steve Hanke

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the…

— Ha-Joon Chang

If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…

— John Holdren

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more…

— Paul Lafargue

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just…

— Taylor Swift

I feel humiliated that I live in a country that demands more already. Why do we cling to the notion that not…

— David Suzuki

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to…

— Thomas Malthus

What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so…

— Mark Roth

In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at…

— Thorstein Veblen

The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of…

— Kate Morton

The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see…

— Pope Francis

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must…

— Karl Marx

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us…

— Jimmy Carter

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure…

— Raoul Vaneigem

The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease…

— Bruce Ames

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands…

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau