Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“A thirty-two-ounce soda and a tank of gas is America distilled to its seminal fluids.” — Richard Manning Copy Share Image
“This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior.” — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption. — Evan Dando Copy Share Image
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
What is the most challenging is the industry of fashion is pushing for speedy consumption. — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac Copy Share Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
I just feel like everyone (including myself) on the planet is a little confused; we are all so driven by consumption -… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins,… — Ian Somerhalder 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 became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image