Consumption Quotes

375 Consumption quotes by 287 unique authors

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture… — Chuck Palahniuk
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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 our economic system… — John Holdren
Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments...free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama… — Jeffrey Sachs
Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing -… — Maurice Strong
First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe… — Chris Huhne
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — Albert Allen Bartlett
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer… — Jacques Ellul
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve… — Paul Meyer
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet. — Fidel Castro
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth-erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral… — Pope Benedict XVI
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of… — Robert Muller
The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world. — John Robbins
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their… — Alexander Hamilton
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when… — Alexander Hamilton
Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy, — Charles Eisenstein
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place and culture. Together,… — Glenn Murcutt
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What… — Kenneth Goldsmith
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national… — Barbara Kruger
One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains… — Unknown Author

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