In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China.… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan 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
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
Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and… — Vandana Shiva 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
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
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
