The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on… — Harold Hamm Copy Share Image
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt,… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys,… — Max Schneider Copy Share Image
