We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made. — Lou Jiwei Copy Share Image
“Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
India's growth drivers are actually two growth drivers. One is consumption, which arises out of our demographic advantage. And the other is… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
“Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of… — Alan Goodare Copy Share Image
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a… — Dave Draper Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“I vow to ingest only items that preserve well-being, peace, and joy in my body and my consciousness... Practicing a diet is… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy Copy Share Image
We are clearly betting on tablets being both content consumption and production devices. — Shantanu Narayen Copy Share Image
The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
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