I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Remembrance of our kiss brings not your lips nor mine to mind. The flesh can only envy consumption so divine. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable… — Ian Lowe Copy Share Image
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury,… — Mary DeTurris Poust Copy Share Image
“Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
“It made me think of the nice old Marimekko-clad ladies I sometimes went to see in the Ritz Tower: gravel-voiced, turban-wearing, panther-braceleted… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way,… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption. — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan's prosperity is going to be incorporated… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption. — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption. — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
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