Consumption Quotes

375 quotes by 287 authors

The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption. — Unknown Author
A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered. — Stephanie Kaza
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers. — B.F. Skinner
When the day comes that it is time to adopt the alternative of lifting punishment for consumption of drugs, it would have to come all… — Vicente Fox
I am a weapon of massive consumption — Lily Allen
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable… — Freddie Mercury
The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global… — Maurice Strong
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption… — Maurice Strong
Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing… — John Shadegg
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and… — Thorstein Veblen
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to… — Marilyn Manson
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. — Raoul Vaneigem
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a consumption… — Peter Thiel
For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in… — Scott Jurek
The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich
Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble daysâ€”the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyismâ€”was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida

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