Consumption Quotes

375 quotes by 287 authors

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being… — Frank Zappa
In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act… — Don DeLillo
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have… — Susan L. Taylor
We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt
Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy… — David Cameron
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely… — Phil Harding
We are living as if we had three planets' worth of resources to live with rather than just one. We need to cut by about… — David Miliband
If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics and a reliance on science and technology to solve our problems has led to an unsustainable situation where continued growth in consumption is required… — David Suzuki
The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put… — Tony Juniper
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to… — Phil Harding
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared… — Russell Kirk
Greed is the assumption that it is all for my consumption. — Andy Stanley
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. — Ellen Willis
We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or… — Donella Meadows
Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market? — Mark Twain
Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. — George Perkins Marsh

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