Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life… — Michael Yates 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
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
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson 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
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky 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 consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless.… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation… — Tim Brown Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy Copy Share Image
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
