Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from… — Joe Kaeser 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
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on… — Harold Hamm 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
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption… — John Owen 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
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
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments... Rightwing pundits bemoan the… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Heirs Holdings has the ambition to generate at least a quarter of Nigeria's power consumption needs in the next five years — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty… — Bruce Crown 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
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods,… — Maurice Strong 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
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
I think communities of faith are extremely important in this question. I think that all faith communities share a common and unusual… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
