What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a… — Dave Draper Copy Share Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity.… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People… — Yehuda Levi 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
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman 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
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
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
“We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our… — Bill Maher 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
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites… — Biloine W. Young Copy Share Image
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