Finally, we should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“Sustainability depends on community—when we learn to be happily reliant on each other, we’re less likely to turn to material consumption to… — Louisa Thomsen Brits 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
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. — John Robbins Copy Share Image
A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the… — Jarvis Cocker 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
Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war… — Andres Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
“All the good things I have done to this point, I owe to you. All the bad things, I owe to the… — Nick Spalding Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production… — Lesslie Newbigin 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
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
“The Consumption Gap is based on the idea that technology companies can add features and complexity to their products at a much… — J.B. Wood Copy Share Image
“Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world. — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
