The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Hence that state of mind at once gloomy and euphoric which one associates with carrying out the rubbish; and the way we… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy 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
Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff. — Emma Thompson 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
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs. — Jean-Philippe Courtois Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
Car prices play a large role in calculating PPPs even while they play no role whatsoever in the consumption or consumption needs… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
