Accustomed Quote by Ezra Taft Benson

“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce all of…

— Derrick Jensen

The more you control where your food comes from instead of relying on restaurants, fast food joints, convenience stores and other processed sources, the…

— Austin Aries

“Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of…

— Ivan Illich

“In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck…

— José Ortega y Gasset

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

— John Robbins

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting…

— Margaret Halsey

“Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”

— Wesley J. Smith

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the…

— Angela Davis

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph