Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is...… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy.… — Harry Beckwith Copy Share Image
We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. I mean we consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to… — David Graeber 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
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
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an… — Marilyn Manson 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
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that… — Mel Gibson 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
There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
