If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
Victoria Beckham should get a life, I am not a fan of outrageous consumption. I think it is vulgar. And no-one should… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken 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
We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States,… — David Rees Copy Share Image
...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since… — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“everyday life, consumer culture and technology, while our own question (what makes consumption grow?) is outside scope.4 Thus, we found an empirical… — Fatos Goksen Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad,… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People… — Yehuda Levi Copy Share Image
It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide… — Marriner Stoddard Eccles Copy Share Image
I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
You're treated as though you're just a piece of meat, and you're there for consumption by men. I feel like the common… — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Copy Share Image
The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars,… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
“...eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something… — Evan D.G. Fraser Copy Share Image
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum Copy Share Image