Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten Copy Share Image
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the… — Ahmed Zaki Yamani Copy Share Image
I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants.… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
The problem with modern consumption and mass-produced products is they're designed to just literally be shoved into our mouths and rushed. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I keep kosher, so I have an element of consumption awareness embedded into my daily life. One of the things the practice… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the philosophers once knew as life has become the sphere of private existence and now of mere consumption, dragged along as… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States. — Dieter Zetsche Copy Share Image
