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
I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly. — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If consumption is a main goal in life, labor has become a painful gate to buying things, which are often unnecessary or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption. — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way,… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt,… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to… — Barry Bergdoll Copy Share Image
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
However it is achieved, a thorough reorganisation of production, consumption and distribution will be the end result of humanity's response to the… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is… — William H. Gass 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
We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
The slogan used to be 'Populate or perish'. We can now see that it is more like 'Populate and perish'. A sustainable… — Ian Lowe Copy Share Image
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income. — James B. Stewart 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
People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys,… — Max Schneider Copy Share Image
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image