Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“All the good things I have done to this point, I owe to you. All the bad things, I owe to the… — Nick Spalding Copy Share Image
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. — John Robbins Copy Share Image
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story… — Mark Pendergrast Copy Share Image
“Modern man is actually close to the picture Huxley describes in his Brave New World : well fed, well clad, satisfied sexually,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
“Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs. — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
“The Consumption Gap is based on the idea that technology companies can add features and complexity to their products at a much… — J.B. Wood Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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