Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the…

— Tim Brown

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an…

— Peter Saville

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

— Noam Chomsky

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you…

— James Surowiecki

Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The…

— Willie Nelson

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

— Jenna Wortham

Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes…

— Michael Dean Crapo

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that…

— Ted Leo

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of…

— David R. Brower

“Truth is commodity in political consumption.”

— Toba Beta

Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

— Michael Yates