Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
“A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The planets environmental woes tend to be overlooked as we scramble for the latest high-tech gizmos - and conveniently ignore their energy… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
People willy-nilly borrow for consumption. Civil servants willy-nilly borrow for consumption and then wonder why they don't have enough money at the… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity.… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
