19th century Quote by Erich Fromm

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

— Jimmy Carter

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase…

— Om Malik

In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.

— Erich Fromm

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -…

— Felix Guattari

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately,…

— Lewis Mumford

We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end.

— Karl Kraus

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

— Raoul Vaneigem

When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well.

— Louis C. K

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of…

— Lesslie Newbigin

Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It's a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries and tired…

— Richard Florida