A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns. — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say 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
The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Simon N. Patten Copy Share Image
The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
...President [Bush] believes that [high-energy consumption] is an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policymakers to… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
“Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of… — Alan Goodare Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mindfulness of the resources we have and respect for where we live, eat, and sleep is a good starting point. Being conscious… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
“We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles…If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
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