“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Technology loves and thrives and makes gobs of money on conspicuous consumption. — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. — Susan George Copy Share Image
Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of… — David Rosen Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war… — Andres Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
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