Consumption Quotes

375 quotes by 298 authors

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally… — Neal Barnard
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. — Zygmunt Bauman
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...… — Joseph Beuys
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by… — David R. Brower
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and… — Jerry Brown
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. — Jimmy Carter
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel… — Mahatma Gandhi
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and… — Sherwood Boehlert
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. — Raoul Vaneigem
In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections, to the withering and consumption… — John Owen
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 on drugs is… — Andres Oppenheimer
"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in… — John Hickenlooper
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and… — Matthew Simmons
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given… — Pope John Paul II

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