Consumption Quotes

375 quotes by 287 authors

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date. — Warren Buffett
There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in… — Russell M. Nelson
The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting… — Dallin H. Oaks
...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is… — Pope Francis
The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of… — Pope Francis
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community. — Charles Eisenstein
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and… — James Spader
Itâ€™s the method of consumption, not whatâ€™s on the plate. — Patton Oswalt
I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools.… — Walton Goggins
Bridges are burning all around us; bridges to responses that might have mitigated the already brutal (and just beginning) ravages of Peak Oil; bridges to… — Michael Ruppert
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates… — Claire Vaye Watkins
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting, — Andrea Illy
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter. — Bernard M. Oliver
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire… — John Evelyn
...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is… — John Yudkin
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are… — Manuel Puig
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future… — Mark Thornton
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car… — Fareed Zakaria
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production… — Graham Hancock
Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but… — Mohsin Hamid

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