Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“...there is almost nothing more important we can do for our young than convince them that production is more satisfying than consumption.” — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production. — Susan George Copy Share Image
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more… — Norbert Reithofer 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
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
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you… — Leslie Bradshaw Copy Share Image
It's fine if you're making 1,000 or 2,000 of an electric car, and I think there is value in that in a… — Rick Wagoner 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
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas. — Jimmy Carter 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
The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of… — David Rosen Copy Share Image
Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
We are talking about creating a legal framework to regulate the production, transit and consumption of drugs. — Otto Perez Molina Copy Share Image
“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. — Ivan Illich 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
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten Copy Share Image
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
